These people don't care if you're white, black or yellow
At least 19 people lost their lives in encounters with police in the United States last week. The victims, all men, ranged in age from 18 to 53. Seventeen were shot to death, one tased, and one both tased and beaten and strangled. In only two of the cases were the victims shot while engaged in violent attacks on others. All the others were shot while fleeing or allegedly resisting police, or while experiencing mental health or emotional crises.
In several instances the police killings sparked protests. In El Cajon, California, a suburb of San Diego, there were protests over the death September 27 of Alfred Olango, an immigrant from Uganda who was tased and shot to death while unarmed. Olango was having an emotional breakdown after learning of the death of a friend.
In Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, more than 100 people gathered to protest the killing of Reginald Thomas, father of eight children, after police were called to address a domestic dispute early Friday. The 36-year-old black man, who was reportedly bipolar, was said to be waving a knife and a fire extinguisher when police arrived.
Comment: Class, not race, is the primary determinant of who gets killed by The Enforcers; a fact that is almost completely lost in a climate where hysteria favors the super-rich super-elite because ordinary people turn against each other and forget about the bank bailouts, the illegal wars, the rigged elections, the illegal surveillance state, the destruction of civil liberties, etc, etc.
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US Police State - All the ways you can comply and still die during an encounter with police
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