We are currently in the midst of the 2014 Ferguson Age, the Winter of Death (for people of color only) where, poor, illiterate, unemployed, uneducated black youth, among others, are being shot by police in a very deliberate and random fashion. The police are engaging in indiscriminate shooting all across the country. In the Indian (American Indian) community this is not really news. Although the entire country is enthralled with every last detail of each bloody bullet that’s being fired. This is a continuation of a long standing “kill them all” law enforcement policy which has evolved homogeneously in cities, towns and all-white enclaves throughout time and space.
Does this seem like the Holocaust reincarnated, or genocide, or a deliberate policy of extermination. Well it feels awful familiar to me. “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” anyone?, or maybe “Hitler’s Willing Executioner’s?
The Uber police agency, the Department of Justus, Eric Holder, et al, has proposed a review and revision of national policing policies. Well knowing Washington DC and their lethargic “run to action” mode, as soon as the news dies down, this effort with get buried in the bureaucratic shit pile.
Apparently there was a study done with the LAPD where the officers emphatically stated “…we live in fear of BLACK MEN…”. What the hell, so you’d rather shoot than become engaged in some type of civilized conversation? How sick is that?
Well this is a national phenomenon. And now the public and private conversations are going from one “white extreme” to another. “Well we are looking at how we interact with the community” (scowl not included). Really?
You shoot a kid(s) and let them lie in the street for 4 fucking hours after killing them and now you want to “look at how you interact”? are you kidding me. And you’re apparently VERY sincere about “having a conversation”. How about not KILLING anyone for a day or two?
The now heavily nationalized, militarized, zombied police apparently have taken to heart the Beatles rendition of “Happiness is a Warm Gun”.
To me there’s a correlation between the fact that most, if not all, mass shooting perpetrators have been committing suicide immediately after their killing sprees. They understand that the police will kill first, ask questions after. So they shoot themselves. It’s their understanding that they will die. There’s no arrest, Miranda rights, court etc., it’s just “kill the bastards”.
But you don’t really have to be a random shooter to get shot by the police, you just need to be a person of color, poor, young, and look as threatening as they think you are, in that case, you’ll die for sure.