Federally Militarized Police Add Middle-Class Minorities to Target List
“Another
day, another black man violently assaulted by five rogue police
officers for the ever-increasing crime of BWB (breathing while black).
This time it was NBA player Sterling Brown...It’s hardly news that
people of color are continually harassed, but what’s been making the news lately is the frequency with which upwardly mobile, middle-class people of color are being targeted.
From the two black men waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia
Starbucks, to a black Yale graduate student napping in her dorm’s common
room, to three black women facing down seven cop cars and a helicopter
as they checked out out of an Airbnb house they were renting...there is
an overlooked long-lasting collateral damage to the black community’s
faith in the promise of the American dream and the sinister effect on
their children that is much worse than that single assault.”
See also:
"I am speaking for Dontre Hamilton of Milwaukee, Laquan McDonald of
Chicago, Stephon Clark of Sacramento, Eric Garner of New York and the
list goes on...The common denominator in all of these (killings) has been racism towards the minority community...The
lack of repercussions for the police officers involved in so many of
these cases is...a slap in the face to the victims’ families and
communities."
And this: "American police shoot and kill far more people than their peers in other countries...(but) are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of force."
Plus this: "The technology giant Amazon is providing police agencies and private intelligence contractors in the United States with facial recognition and video tracking algorithms to (intensify) mass surveillance on the population."
Comment:
I posted the above material as this weekend-update's lead story
because, once again, we cannot comprehend the true horror of the
Empire's domestic and foreign agendas without first examining the
capabilities and intentions demonstrated by its ever-expanding catalogue
of atrocities.
These
newest outrages -- clearly another expansion of the Empire's lifelong,
242-year history of hate-motivated, often genocidal persecution of
non-whites -- are precisely what prove "American Democracy" to have
never been more than a Big Lie.
(To read the rest, go here.)
