Originally Posted by Johny

Please, help me out there:



God damn those 8 long minutes

Lying face down in cuffs on the ground

Bystanders pleaded for mercy

As one cop shoved a kid in the crowd

When did a judge and a jury

Become a badge and a knee

On these streets



This verse is obviously above the death of GF. What doesn't make much sense to me is the one line. I may not fully understand the verb "shove" or the "kid" is someone totally else than GF. Or was he shoved to a some crowd? I thought he was taken out and arrested.