caramel was her shade of skin no walls no bars could keep her in she loved this life for which she fought from a grocery cart she had not bought she said she lived on borrowed dreams sometimes she talked sometimes she screamed she knew the cop who set her free he tripped or fell but would not tell he shot her dead he cracked her head now she's gone and no one cares in Hollywood no one dares
11/01/2011
Sad really, and it is not just in Hollywood that no one cares..you bring me there and now I wish to do something..thank you!
Took me a while to identify source information for this... An 'official' version: http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/28520 Another perspective: http://richgibson.com/racistLAPD.html The irony in 'set her free' intensifies the tragedy...
