So you are there<\/p>\n
Doing the job<\/p>\n
Getting ready to suck down yet another<\/p>\n
Submarine Sandwich for lunch<\/p>\n
‘Cause they are healthy for fuckssake<\/p>\n
When your ever present ever squawking ever lovin’ radio bursts out<\/p>\n
Another sad tale<\/p>\n
Firemen being shot at<\/p>\n
Need help yesterday<\/p>\n
Send the ARMY<\/p>\n
Aint no army though,<\/p>\n
Just us coppers<\/p>\n
Rolling through the hot Vegas streets all ablaze with light and sound<\/p>\n
Believing from experience that this is just another fire<\/p>\n
With rounds cooking off inside<\/p>\n
Must think they are being shot at but no way man<\/p>\n
NO ONE shoots at fireman<\/p>\n
Suddenly one of my children,<\/p>\n
My men<\/p>\n
My badass warriors<\/p>\n
voices comes over the air<\/p>\n
I SEE HIM<\/p>\n
HE’S GOT A GUN<\/p>\n
TAKING ROUNDS, TAKING ROUNDS<\/p>\n
HE’S MOVING<\/p>\n
HE’s RELOADING<\/p>\n
This is information that sets ones nerves on a razors edge<\/p>\n
I turn down the street where a guy had reportedly set his house afire<\/p>\n
Shot at the firemen who came to put it out<\/p>\n
And was now engaged in the attempted murder of one of my team<\/p>\n
And nothing is there.\u00a0 No one.<\/p>\n
Street as empty as an abandoned factory<\/p>\n
Dusty and silent<\/p>\n
I drive down it thinking of Hogan’s alley and deathtraps<\/p>\n
I pass a house with smoke coming out of the chimney and see him<\/p>\n
Large man, dark skin, white shirt, long gun,<\/p>\n
BOOM<\/p>\n
He shoots at me as I accelerate up the street<\/p>\n
The sound of bullets hitting metal in my Doppler<\/p>\n
I figured he hit my car but it was the car behind me<\/p>\n
This is now an official shit-storm<\/p>\n
Out of the car, dead run with shotgun in hand<\/p>\n
Rounds whizzing by me into the trees on my left<\/p>\n
Sound of bullets smashing into concrete cinderblock<\/p>\n
(!this guy is trying to kill us!)<\/p>\n
See one of the other sergeants parked right in front of the house<\/p>\n
My mind races at light-speed, HE’S IN DANGER THE FUCKER IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM<\/p>\n
I take aim with the shotgun, suspect framed in a perfect sight picture<\/p>\n
Snap the trigger, blasting the image in front of me and hit or not he moves<\/p>\n
Didn’t know it then but my peer had already been shot at and hit<\/p>\n
K9 cop a voice in my ear<\/p>\n
\u201cyour too far dude\u201d speaking of my shotgun<\/p>\n
Didn’t matter<\/p>\n
Had to take the shot<\/p>\n
Had to distract him a second ‘fore he killed Sergeant Frank<\/p>\n
Ya do what ya gotta do and then we go home<\/p>\n
That’s my motto<\/p>\n
Suspect taking cover now, reloading behind a car<\/p>\n
Officers crouching, running pell-mell<\/p>\n
Suspect still viable taking aim<\/p>\n
I had already looked into his barrel once too many times and<\/p>\n
Now couldn’t see him anywhere<\/p>\n
He was crouching behind the car<\/p>\n
Popping up to shoot at us again I hear the staccato beat of semi-automatic weapons fire<\/p>\n
Don’t know if its bad guy or us<\/p>\n
He’s down<\/p>\n
Reaching for the long gun again when another one of my men lines up carefully and shoots him a final time<\/p>\n
Moment of silence with the vine-like ropes of cordite clinging to the atmosphere<\/p>\n
A testament of finality that clears the vision harder than cold splashing water<\/p>\n
Medical aid for the downed man behind massive vehicular cover<\/p>\n
K-9 dog bites him first to make sure he aint a possum<\/p>\n
He aint.\u00a0 He moves like a discarded childs rag-doll, pulled willy-nilly on the packed dirt<\/p>\n
We approach tactical and ready<\/p>\n
I lead an assault element to the burning house and upon kicking the door get overwhelmed with thick black rolling smoke<\/p>\n
Heartbeat slows<\/p>\n
Vision normal<\/p>\n
The beat goes on<\/p>\n
I hear a senior Lieutenant over the air saying \u201cLET IT BURN\u201d and my heart is glad<\/p>\n
This man on the ground and his poor choices<\/p>\n
Actively trying to kill innocent people<\/p>\n
Will harm no one again and the<\/p>\n
Other Sergeant received minor wounds and was treated and released from the hospital<\/p>\n
So we are all ok.\u00a0 Me and my team.\u00a0 My fellow warriors.\u00a0 Out in the thankless heat of the city we did our best to survive and we did survive and we carry on<\/p>\n
The psycho circus still beats behind my eyelids as my minds eye pictures the Crazy Motherfucker who tried to kill us<\/p>\n
I am sad for his mama<\/p>\n
But like the rest of the world<\/p>\n
He made his choices and we went home<\/p>\n
Same ass back as you brought in,<\/p>\n
That’s my motto.<\/p>\n
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