Digital Martyrs - Cops lyrics

Cops shot him in the back, cops shot him in the head Cops choked out a man and beat him half to d**h You see it all the time on the news Or on the block that you live as you cruise They k**ed Alex Nieto before he went to work Some gentrifying yuppie called the pigs, what a jerk Cos they saw a young brother with a tazer at his side He worked security, still shot him 59 times Sandra Bland roughed up and arrested For speaking her mind to a cop she detested In the morning they find her strung up on a rope Called it suicide, yeah right, nope! Eric Garner got choked out for selling cigarettes Told the cop "I can't breathe" still ended up dead Freddie Gray got his neck snapped in the back of a van Because he ran, Baltimore, god damn [Chorus] Indite, convict, send those k**er cops to jail The whole damn system is guilty as hell Fong Lee k**ed by Minneapolis PD Met his mom and pops, cried with his family Police claims the kid had a gun, video shows empty hands as he runs Bay Area won't forget Oscar Grant New Years night, the whole train heard a bang Shot him in the back, while cuffed face down This is what happens when you're black in the town A long list of lives that left this earth By the hands who swore to protect and serve They got the nerve to take our tax Yet they shoot us down when we fight back Protest in peace, they release the dogs Try to use their courts when they break the law No faith in the system that protects the rich And condemns the poor and takes their sh** [Chorus] Corrupt coppers, all over the world From Mexico to Mindanao, who do you serve? Corporations getting down, extracting the earth Tearing down shanty towns, down in the dirt Increase police before they gentrify hoods And the beast to displace people that stood It's a work in progress I guess You protest this mess they attack our flesh Chained up, toed up, profiled, humiliated Walking down the street, while whiteboys get inebriated Hate the feeling of being innocent Cos it means you become a victim They say some cops ain't that bad I say it's the system so don't get mad Bodyguards of the state and market too Supersedes the needs of me and you