„I wrote this song for a man named Michael Stewart. A young black man arrested while writing graffiti on a subway wall in New York City.

And while under arrest, surrounded by eleven white transit cops. Michael Stewart was strangled to death and when his case went to court not one cop was found guilty because the coroner lost the evidence.


You see, in order to determine that Michael Stewart was strangled to death, the coroner had to use Michael Stewart’s eyeballs, his eyes, as evidence.

So now when I tell you that it was Michael Stewart’s eyes that the coroner lost, do you know what I mean when I tell you that justice is blind?“

Aus „Graffiti Limbo“ von Michelle Shocked (vielen Dank für die Erlaubnis, den Text wiedergeben zu dürfen). Mehr zu Michael Stewart in der Wikipedia.

Ich meine, vor Leuten, die mit verbundenen Augen Schwerter schwingen, sollte man sich generell in acht nehmen.