"Since the beginning of this year, more than 300 people have been killed by police nationwide, well on track to surpass the yearly average of 1,175 killings over the last four years."
BLOG: FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA DID NOTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA.... BUT HE SURE AS HELL SERVED LA RAZA AND THE MEX INVADERS!
“The mayor and the city of Sacramento has failed all of you… The gangbanging has to stop. The poverty is uncontrollable.”
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a 11 TRILLION
DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created
more debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also
had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s
terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
According to Killedbypolice.net, at least 808 people have been killed by
police so far this year, outpacing last year’s deaths by 20
victims.... and they ALL GET AWAY WITH IT!
"Police in the
United States are trained to see the working class and poor as a hostile
enemy. Anything less
than complete submissiveness is grounds for officers to unleash
deadly force on
their victims. In some instances, even the most casual encounters with
police
have proven to be deadly."
COP MURDERS IN
AMERICA -
THOUSANDS SHOT IN THE HEAD.
JUDGES GIVE THE THUG COPS A PASS TO
DO IT AGAIN!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/cop-crimes-in-america-fourth-year-of.html
Autopsy Shows Police Shot Unarmed Man Stephon Clark 8 Times
Democrats seek to use
Stephon Clark’s funeral to divert anger over police killings
By
Kayla Costa
30 March 2018
On Thursday, the family of Stephon Clark held a funeral for the
22-year-old unarmed African American man who was shot twenty times by the
police nearly two weeks ago in the backyard of his grandmother’s home in
Sacramento, California. The Bayside of South Sacramento Church was packed with
hundreds of relatives, friends and community members confronting terrible grief
of losing a loved one to police murder.
A number of local clergy figures from Christian and Muslim
backgrounds introduced the funeral, followed by performances, speeches and
prayers. All of the speakers described Clark as an intelligent, warm and loving
man who “would do anything for his [wife] Selena and his sons.”
In addition to their reflections upon the Clark’s life, his family
expressed their anger at his brutal and unfounded execution by two police
officers, who claim to have mistaken a cell phone for a gun. One of his cousins
read a poem about the murder, asking, “Enough isn’t enough? What, a gun and
badge make you tough? Rather shoot someone down and then put them in cuffs… Are
they trained and programmed to just kill our family, our kids?”
Since the shocking video of Clark’s killing was released, hundreds
of people have participated in demonstrations against police violence.
Protesters have participated in an occupation of City Hall, vigils and
memorials, and marches through downtown and along major streets that have
prevented fans from attending NBA basketball games played by the Sacramento
Kings.
Responding to the militant social opposition that has emerged in
Sacramento, as well as popular outrage across the country, the Democratic Party
and their supporters in Black Lives Matter and other activist organizations are
seeking to contain, water down and divert the deep frustrations of the mostly
young people and workers.
Reverend Al Sharpton flew in to deliver a two-part eulogy at the
funeral as part of an effort to redirect anger back into the dead end of
reformism, identity politics and the electoral efforts of the Democratic Party.
Reflecting the ruling class fear of the eruption of popular
protests outside of their control, Sharpton declared, “It’s time for preachers
to come out the pulpit, it’s time for politicians to come out the office, it’s
time for us to go down and stop this madness.”
He went on to criticize the Trump administration, which issued a
dismissive statement that police violence is an issue for local officials,
“This is not a Sacramento fight anymore, this is a national fight… We gonna
make Donald Trump and the entire world deal with this issue of police
misconduct.”
While Sharpton postured as an opponent police violence and
denounced Trump, he did not mention the role of the Democratic Party in the
militarization of the police apparatus. Nor did he list the thousands of people
who were shot by police during Barack Obama’s administration, whose Justice
Department whitewashed police killings and oversaw the transfer of military
weaponry to local police forces.
Just four years ago, Sharpton told protesters to “respect the police”
and stop throwing “ghetto pity parties” at the funeral for 18-year-old Michael
Brown. Now he claims to be on the same side as the youth and workers who are
fighting against police murder, poverty and inequality.
Sharpton and other leaders are also relying heavily on identity
politics to distort the fundamental issues of Stephon’s murder. At the funeral,
one prominent imam insisted, “Black people in this country are not brutalized
because they are Methodist, Baptist, Muslim or Catholic, they are brutalized
because they are Black people in America.”
The ideology of these religious leaders and Democratic Party
representatives remains far outside of the sentiments shared by many of Clark’s
family members and others who have participated in the demonstrations over the
past two weeks.
Stevante, Clark’s older brother, has been highly critical of the
verbal sympathy by media and political figures. “They’re all in here for money,
really,” he said while speaking on stage. Earlier this week Stevante addressed
an audience during the occupation of a City Hall meeting after breaking up a
meeting of the city council, “The mayor and the city of Sacramento has failed
all of you… The gangbanging has to stop. The poverty is uncontrollable.”
Stephon’s aunt, Kimmy Simone, told ABC News on Wednesday, “You
just keep looking at these kids over and over—it’s not black. It’s white. It’s
all colors,” She continued, “Look at [the] 17 children they killed at that
school [Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida]. Look at it.
Guns, violence, all that is hate. We don’t need it.”
The protests continued Thursday afternoon as a diverse crowd of
mostly young people marched through downtown Sacramento for the third day in a
row. Demonstrators held signs reading “Police the police” and “Convict killer
cops” at the federal courthouse and District Attorney’s Office, as they
demanded arrests and convictions for both police officers, one of whom is an
African-American.
Over the weekend, millions of students, youth and workers in the
United States and internationally participated in the protests against gun
violence and school shootings. Despite the efforts of the Democratic Party and
its operatives to divert the protests toward various dead ends, wide layers of
the working class are mobilizing against mass violence, police killings and the
broader attack on democratic rights.
The murder of
Stephon Clark and the fight against police violence
29 March 2018
Over the last week, hundreds of people in Sacramento, California
have participated in demonstrations protesting the police murder of Stephon
Clark, a 22-year-old African American man who was unarmed when he was shot 20
times in his grandparent’s backyard. Many more are expected to pay their
respects today at Clark’s funeral.
The eruption of renewed protests against police violence is part
of the reemergence of social opposition in the US, including a wave of strikes
and demonstrations by teachers and the March for Our Lives protests that
involved more than one million students and youth last weekend.
Clark’s murder was caught on video by the police officer’s body
cams and a police helicopter that was hovering overhead. The footage shows that
the officers unleashed the barrage of bullets as soon as they rounded the
corner of the house.
After gunning Clark down, the officers made no effort to
administer any aid until backup arrived several minutes later, at which point
they handcuffed his corpse and made a feeble attempt at CPR. Police video also
shows that officers muted their microphones, presumably to get their story
straight while off the record.
The release of the footage and the initial claims by the police
that they mistook Clark’s cellphone for a gun have sparked a week of
demonstrations. Clark’s family and protesters are demanding the arrest and
prosecution of the two officers who murdered the unarmed man.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s announcement on
Tuesday that his office would provide oversight of the District Attorney’s
investigation into the killing and conduct its own investigation of the
Sacramento Police Department’s policies was met with justifiable skepticism by
Clark’s family.
There should be no illusions in promises of oversight or
intervention from the Democrats and their supporters in Black Lives Matter.
Longtime Democratic operative Al Sharpton, representing the political
establishment, is delivering the eulogy at Clark’s funeral today as part of an
effort to demobilize the protests and redirect popular anger back into the
electoral politics of the Democratic Party. At the funeral for 18-year-old
Michael Brown in 2014, Sharpton chided protesters to “respect the police” and
stop throwing “ghetto pity parties.”
Meanwhile, members of BLM and other proponents of identity
politics in Sacramento have worked to direct anger away from the city’s first
African American police chief, promoting the idea that investigations by the
state and federal government will hold Clark’s killers to account.
Such official investigations, whether at the state or federal
level, are meant to tamp down popular anger while providing cover for the
police. They rarely, if ever, result in charges against killer cops. Even rarer
are criminal convictions, which are little more than statistical anomalies.
Dozens of investigations by the Department of Justice during the
Obama administration into the actions of police departments across the country
served to whitewash the crimes of countless police officers.
Even as protests continued in Sacramento, Louisiana’s Attorney
General Jeff Landry announced that there would be no murder charges against the
two police officers who shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge as he
sold CDs outside a convenience store. That egregious killing, in which two
officers pumped bullets into Sterling as he was held down on the ground, was
also caught on video.
Clark’s murder is just one of a relentless string of police
killings in the US, which have continued unabated after popular protests over
police violence erupted in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 following the murder of
18-year-old Michael Brown. Since the beginning of this year, more than 300
people have been killed by police nationwide, well on track to surpass the
yearly average of 1,175 killings over the last four years.
The Trump administration has repeatedly denounced demonstrations
against police violence, including last year’s protests by players in the
National Football League, in effect giving police a green light to beat and
kill with impunity. But Trump is only intensifying policies pursued under the
Obama administration, which presided over the imposition of militarized police
crackdowns on demonstrators in Ferguson and Baltimore, and repeatedly sided
with the police in cases brought before the Supreme Court.
Contrary to the narrative promoted by Black Lives Matter and the
political establishment that police violence is an issue of “race relations,”
the largest share of those killed by the police are white. Whatever role racism
plays in the disproportionate number of African American men killed each year,
working-class people of every skin color, gender and age are the victims of
police brutality.
Police violence is only the most visible expression of the brutal
character of class relations within the United States under capitalism. The
police, constituting one of the “bodies of armed men” that make up the state,
are tasked with defending the existing social order in a country in which three
people control as much wealth as the bottom half of society.
The ongoing reign of police terror is just one expression of the
escalating crackdown on democratic rights within the United States. The Trump
administration has let loose Immigration and Customs Enforcement to carry out
raids at workplaces, schools and hospitals throughout the country, terrorizing
whole communities and deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented
immigrants. Meanwhile the technology giants, working at the behest of the major
US intelligence agencies and the Democratic Party, are moving rapidly to censor
the internet.
It is no surprise that renewed demonstrations against police
violence have erupted amid the growth of working-class opposition in the United
States, with a wave of strikes and protests by education workers in West
Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and other states, as well as nationwide
demonstrations against school shootings.
The emergence of these struggles makes clear that social
opposition is building up within the working class. But at every turn, workers
confront the efforts of the Democratic Party and trade unions to shut down and
demobilize popular opposition by channeling it back into the political
establishment.
Every social problem, whether it is underfunded schools, low
wages, unending police violence or school shootings, has systemic roots. The
struggle against police violence can only succeed to the extent that workers
and young people break with the Democratic Party and link their struggles to
the broader movement of the working class against capitalism and for socialism.
Niles Niemuth
Notes on Police Violence
Unarmed man with pants down
fatally shot by deputy in Houston, Texas
By Anthony Bertolt
30 March 2018
Brutal police violence is a feature of daily life in America. This
year has seen a rise in protests against police violence as part of the
resurgence of class struggle, particularly in the wake of the murder of Stephon
Clark in Sacramento earlier this month and the announcement that the officers
involved in the murder of Alton Sterling will not face charges. So far this
year, the police have killed more than 308 people of every race, ethnicity,
gender and age. What follows is just a sampling of those killed in the last two
weeks.
Unarmed man with pants down fatally shot by deputy in Houston ,
Texas
Last Thursday, Danny Ray Thomas, a 34-year-old man, was shot and
killed by a Harris County deputy in Houston, Texas.
According to the Houston
Chronicle, witnesses said Thomas was “walking in the middle of the
intersection of Imperial Valley and Greens Road with his pants around his
ankles, talking to himself and hitting vehicles as they passed by.”
One of the drivers of the vehicles then exited their vehicle and
confronted Thomas, starting a verbal and physical altercation. A Harris County
deputy witnessed the incident and stopped his car to get out and intervene.
Thomas reportedly did not respond to the officer’s commands and
approached the officer, who then shot him once. Thomas died later that day at
the hospital.
The Harris County deputy who shot Thomas said he did so “fearing
for his safety” despite the fact that Thomas had his pants around his ankles.
The deputy also claimed Thomas had “some object” in his hands, despite no
weapon or objects having been found on the scene.
Thomas’s family members confirmed that he was the father of two
children who had died in 2016 when their mother allegedly drowned them in a
bathtub. Marketa Thomas, Danny Ray Thomas’s sister, said that she had relied on
her brother for support as they both suffered from depression. So far this
year, there have been two people killed by police in Harris County.
Columbus , Ohio police fatally shoot woman during SWAT standoff
Police say they responded to a report of gunshots early Saturday
morning before 4:30 a.m. in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
Officers arrived at the residence to find 25-year-old Kaitlin
Marie Demeo, who had barricaded herself inside the house with a rifle alone.
The police then called the SWAT and Negotiation Team, who arrived
on the scene and attempted to negotiate with Demeo, but were unsuccessful.
Nearly four hours later, Demeo reportedly fired at the officers from inside and
was killed by two SWAT officers who returned fire. Police identified the two
officers as Glenn Thivener and Keith Kise, both veterans of the police for over
20 years.
Demeo’s killing was the fourth police shooting in Columbus so far
this year.
Phoenix, Arizona police shoot and kill man af ter tas ing him 3
times
Police in west Phoenix received a report of a vehicle break-in
last Friday around 11 a.m. When they arrived on the scene, they found
23-year-old Kevin Robles, holding a knife and “acting agitated.” They initially
deployed a Taser, shocking Robles three times. However, police say it had no
noticeable effect, which is when police say that Robles attacked them with the
knife.
Police then shot Robles, who was later pronounced dead at a local
hospital.
Polk County, Florida deputies shoot and kill man with a history of
mental health issues
On Tuesday, March 20, 20-year-old Chance Haegele was killed after
he was shot 17 times by police in Winter Haven, Florida.
Police arrived at his home after his mother, Christina Haegele,
made an emergency call to prevent her son from committing suicide.
When they arrived he allegedly pointed an unloaded shotgun at the
officers, who then opened fire, shooting Haegele 17 times. Prior to the barrage
of bullets, Haegele’s mother had told the officers that the shotgun was not
loaded and that he was not a threat.
Haegele had been admitted to the hospital seven times under the
Baker Act in Florida, which allows for certain individuals to be examined or
admitted to hospitals involuntarily if deemed necessary by judges, doctors,
lawyers or other professionals.
He had attended Florida State University pursuing a degree in
business finance, earning a 3.7 grade point average. Haegele suffered from
depression, which had reportedly intensified after his father discontinued
financial support for Chance while he attended college.
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