Fanny Choi Poems

Last month, Officer Peter Liang was convicted of killing Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man in a Brooklyn housing project. Since then, hundreds of Chinese Americans have marched in support of Officer Liang, many of them carrying signs that read, "One tragedy, two victims."

If there is a second victim here, it is not you, Peter. If there is a second victim here, it might be Akai's mother, who, like your mother, stayed up late sometimes worrying that he wouldn't make it home. If there is a second victim here, it might be Akai's sweetheart, who, unlike your sweetheart, had to watch her man drown in his body's red unmaking, knowing that no help was on its way, never on its way in the neighborhoods you patrol, Peter, never a friendly siren, only the iron lockstep of open prison guards like you, Peter.
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