Minneapolis' Pain and No Arrests of Crooked Cops

The rebellion in Minneapolis is not new. Centuries ago, slave rebellions existed to defeat slavery. The antebellum period was a time of overt tyranny where our ancestors were raped and abused. Our black ancestors back then had every God-given right to resist tyranny by any means necessary. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated the point is it is easy to condemn a rebellion, but a rebellion comes from the pain of the unheard. A corrupt system that produces such rebellions in our modern age is vastly worst than a rebellion. I don't agree with the police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters in an unjust way. Do I agree with everything that happened during the rebellion of Minneapolis? No. I don't agree with innocent people being harmed or innocent property being harmed. Yet, buildings and property can be rebuilt. George Floyd's life can never be rebuilt. His life is gone forever physically. He won't see his family on this Earth again. If people want to condemn this rebellion, they better condemn the French Revolution and the American Revolution, because both revolutions involved overt resistance to the monarchy, destruction of property, fires burning, and they totally overthrew various institutions (in forming a new system of government).

The Boston Tea Party involved men destroying British-owned property and throwing it away in the sea. Colin Kaepernick lost his job for kneeing, but evil people won't even acknowledge Colin's arguments for just kneeling. I do feel that agent provocateurs try to infiltrate protesters, and we have to condemn the acts of agent provocateurs completely. People have not only the right to peacefully protest. People have the right to justifiable self-defense too. Police terrorism has no place anywhere in the Universe. Also, we should always organize strategy in building in our community. Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Dr. King, and other elders taught us about grassroots organizing, forming organizations, creating demands, and using leadership in accomplishing what we want (which is total black liberation and justice).

We are now at this point in our history. Tons of people now see what black Americans have been telling the world for centuries. We face a classist, racist, and oppressive system that must be eradicated and replaced with a system of justice. Many of our black mothers, black fathers, and black youth are afraid to walk in the street for fear of living their last day on Earth. Many of our black people have been falsely called the police on for just walking in a park. This is the first time in a long time where I have seen Americans from across the political spectrum condemn the death of an innocent, unarmed black man. We know the truth. The videotape shows the truth. George Floyd was murdered unjustly in Minneapolis, Minnesota on a Monday days ago. The crime against him was horrific and evil. Derek Chauvin forcefully pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes despite Floyd saying that he couldn't breathe. No other officer at that scene came to try to stop Chauvin. As far as I'm concerned, those other officers are just as complicit in Floyd's passing as Derek is. The FBI now is having an investigation of the passing of George Floyd. The officers must be charged, and they could face possibly hate crime charges. There is absolutely no excuse for what Floyd has gone through. The three other officers are Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Keung. Right now, all 4 officers aren't arrested yet. That is inexcusable.

Protesters have condemned police brutality in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. This police brutality comes from racism, economic oppression, and the oligarchy seeking to control populations instead of advancing justice. 400 police killings have occurred in America since 2020. There is no other industrialized nation on planet Earth that has that many killings as America has. Black and brown people make up a disproportionate amount of people in America targeted for harassment, abuse, arrest, and incarceration in America. Trump hypocritically claims to be for us, but he once said that he wanted the police to be more rough when arresting suspects. While the corporate financial oligarchy funds both major parties to maintain the status quo, we desire the working class and the oppressed to unite to create the political plus economic power to define our own destinies. Dr. King was right to say that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power in helping society.



It is important to mention this. Recently, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew of camera people were unjustly arrested by state police authorities. Omar did the right thing, was not doing anything wrong or illegal, and he showed his credentials to the officers. He and others were still arrested and held in custody while the people involved in the death of George Floyd are not arrested right now. Soon, the Governor of Minnesota Jim Walz apologized, and Omar plus his team of media people were released from custody. This shows once again that we have an epidemic of police misconduct. This is why people are justifiably angry at a system that take more priority at comfort of corrupt corps than American citizens outlining their constitutional freedom of the press. CNN sent their legal team to protect Omar Jimenez and his media allies' human rights. We know the elephant in the room. That's self explanatory. Omar Jimenez (who was treated as a criminal when he wasn't) is a person of color, and Josh Campell is a white reporter (who was treated much better by the police). We know that Trump's executive order targeting social media companies is an attack on the First Amendment. Trump uses Twitter to provoke violence (in saying that when the looting starts, the shooting starts which glorifies violence inappropriately. That phrase was made by a Miami mayor during the 1960's who said that he doesn't mind police brutality) is beyond the pale.


By Timothy