Is it normal there is no stop to white police brutality on black people?
Its been 32 years since the Rodney King incident in LA 1992, it wasn't the first incident of white police excessive brutality and racist attitude to black people nor was it last. People have perhaps forgotten the case of Arthur McDuffie in 1980. No need to bring up the pre 60s civil rights movement era. In 2014 unarmed Michael Brown was shot dead, 2019 unarmed Brandon Webber was shot dead. These are just a few incidents of 100s if not 1000s, there have been many cases when black people were either assaulted or out right killed by white police officers just because they were black and looked suspicious, and did not commit crimes. For those who did commit crimes (mostly just theft or driving faster than speed limit) there is the law to punish them, but such extra judicial killings is unforgivable. White business men are killing, raping, looting money everywhere but the pigs just take bribes and do nothing to them.
Now what happened on May 25, 2020 however is beyond unforgivable. George Floyd was an innocent good natured black man, loved by family and friends, with no criminal record. He was 46 year old.
"“He was a good dude,” said Floyd’s cousin, Zackery Terrell. “Whenever you were around him, you felt nothing but just good energy.” “He was getting his life together over there, just kind of got away,” Terrell said. “He was driving trucks to provide for his family.”
On May 25 four white police officers stopped his car. "The officer is seen in the video ignoring his pleas. Police claimed Floyd matched the description of a suspect in a forgery case at a grocery store and that he resisted arrest." They told him to cooperate and not struggle, he did everything as told, they could have just taken him to the car if they liked as some bystanders pointed out, but instead they pinned him to the ground and Officer Derek Chauvin (who previously had killed a suspect in a separate shooting incident) sat on his neck with his knees. George Floyd was a huge (but gentle) man, he could have knocked all four of them if he wanted, but even until then he cooperated everything and just kept chocking "I can't breath", "I can't breath". Bystanders kept pleading the pig to let him go, but Chauvin wouldnt, some pointed out Chauvin was enjoying himself while the other three cops did nothing but watch in amusement. This ordeal lasted 7 minutes till George became unconscious, Chauvin still didn't let go until the ambulance arrive and George was declared dead. And its been proven he was innocent!
Naturally people protested. It wasn't as violent as the 1980 or 1992 cases but still violent clashes between cops and protests lasted until just few hours ago (May 28 now). The four cops have naturally been suspended but Derek Chauvin deserves to be charged with murder. If people protests such incidents they are called bad yet ignorants do not care what these protests are about. Why white people feel they are superior to black just because of their skin color, why after 65 years after the 1955 lynching to death of a 14 year old black child Emmett Till that sparked two decades of civil rights movements these brutality on the black community continues. People need to realize black people are humans too, being black does not automatically make them criminals, such extra judicial brutality (especially for simple crimes like grocery theft (despite most victims being innocent)) need to stop. People treat slogans like black life matters as a joke, just look at the goofy dance offs. Well now there is a whole new slogan "I can't breath" which as been the slogan for Floyd's protest and which has literally been the final words of black people dying of police brutality in many cases. Anti racist behavior need to be institutionalized at schools like sex-ed, white supremacy needs to end and people need to respect the right to life of black people, their voices be heard. Lets live by the spirits of what MLK preached, dedicated to his life, died for the cause of. I pray George Floyd and all such victims like him finds peace.