[Based on Chapter 6: Seeking True Justice, in Fault Lines (written by Voddie Baucham, Salem Books, Washington, D.C., 2021)]

[Verse 1: Tony Timpa]

Welcome to the scene of the crime, seen with your mind

I'll describe the events: Three policemen arrive

I thought the police would treat me with decent respect

I never resisted or tried to flee the arrest

Pinned by these knees on my neck, lungs squeezing for breath

Barely breathing while screaming, I feel heat in my chest

But the policе don’t cease, they'rе eager to flex

I never thought this would be the scene of my death!

Knees pressed on my back, in the prone position

“STOP! I can't breathe!”, but no one will listen!

Compressing the breath from my chest and diaphragm

Does it matter to these cops that I’m a man!?!

They didn't wait to see if I'm guilty

I cried out over and over again, “You're gonna kill me!”

Perverted minds, committing this murder crime

While I'm squirming, dying, I cried for help thirty times!

Hand-cuffed, face-down, on top of the street

They thought I'm asleep, yo, they mock as they speak:

“Time to get up for school and wake from bed!”

But I could no longer shake my head, too late, I'm dead

The cop's body-camera filmed my death here

But it didn’t make the news until the next year

What happened to these 3 wicked sergeants?

Indicted with manslaughter, but the D.A. dismissed the charges!

Do people say my name? Nope, most don’t remember

So no one protested the death of Tony Timpa

Just like George Floyd in comparison

But, 'cause I’m White, my story doesn't fit the narrative

[Chorus]

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ's Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ’s Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

[Verse 2: Ciara Meyer]

“Daddy, who's that banging at the door?”

He put one in the chamber, started aiming it some more

I'm fearing in my heart, am I appearing as a target?

He is also startled, "Who is here at my apartment?"

He said stay behind him, prepare to dash and run

He has his gun, now I feel trapped and stunned

“Oh no! It's the police”, he aims his gun at the cop

The cop fires his, now my lung has been shot

The cop's bullet hit his arm and traveled through it to me

I'm laying on the ground, bleeding, gasping, and I'm woozy

I died from my wounds, see, certainly the worst scene

This girl will never live to see thirteen!

You'll never see my name when they wear attire

NFL players never kneeled for Ciara Meyer

Just like Breonna Taylor in comparison

But, 'cause I'm White, my story doesn't fit the narrative

[Chorus]

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ's Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ's Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

[Verse 3: False Testimony]

Philando Castile was killed at a traffic-stop by a traffic cop

Who sadly thought Philando tried to grab his Glock

That same summer, the same thing happened to Dylan Noble

Blasted by 11 massive shots

Philando was black, but the latter was not

Not to mention, Philando's shooter was a Latin cop

This reminds me of Trayvon

Race-Hustlers invented a false narrative to prey on:

“A white racist killed him!” Actually, the truth, my friend

George Zimmerman's Hispanic, African-Peruvian

Many claim that Floyd's death represented

America's deep racism that's systemic

With factual comparison, I'm challenging the narrative

That Whites are out to get African-Americans

Let's discuss these thorough specifics:

According to the Justice of Bureau statistics

In interracial percentage of crime

Blacks attack Whites 85% of the time

And how long will you speak this fallacy

Of a systemic anti-black police brutality?

Cops are 18 and a half times more likely

To be killed by a black assailant - precisely:

America's racist history's atrocious

But that can't be the data for the current diagnosis!

If we view the present through the lens of the past

It's skewed and tinted with sentiments instead of facts

Instead, receive the truthful narrative

Of Jesus who was crucified to bear our sins

[Chorus]

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ's Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

Is the narrative you listen to truthful?

Or is it a false witness? This is crucial

John 7:24, here is Christ's Justice:

“Don't judge by appearances, but right judgment!”

[Outro: Voddie Baucham]

I saw…and I was moved by it

I was moved by this moment, where a man is in despair

And a police officer in uniform is kneeling on the back and neck of this man who is in despair

This man who was pleading for his life

I-I'll never forget what it felt like to watch, as this man goes limp

And then eventually to realize:

This man is dead!

This man is dead - at the hands of men who'd sworn to protect and to serve

I'll never forget that day

Now, you may assume that the day I'm talking about is the day that George Floyd died

Or the day that I saw the video of George Floyd

I'm not

I'm talking about the day that I saw the video of Tony Timpa