Lets be clear, the killing of these officers is tragic and folks should take time out to mourn, reflect and not be callous to lose of life.. At the same time their deaths do not change anything.. Not one damn thing is changed. Rogue officers who did horrible things to members of the community are not off the hook because these two cops were killed. While we mourn the killing of these two cops and show concern for his girlfriend who he also shot, we should keep in mind, that the family of 12 year old Tamir Rice in Cleveland are still grieving. Police have not apologized or acknowledged that they had amongst their ranks someone who was deemed unfit and unstable for the job. If anything the same heads of police unions that are blaming anti-police rhetoric for the slaying of these two officers have backed the Cleveland police around the killing of Rice.. We see similar unbridled support around the police killing of 7 year old Ayanna Stanley Jones in Detroit. We see the full on support of police brass in the slaying of 13 year old Andy Lopez in Santa Rosa. We are still fighting for justice for John Crawford in Ohio, Jonathan Farell in North Carolina, Alex Nieto in San Francisco, Yanira Serrano-Garcia in Halfmoon Bay, Victor White III of New Iberia, La, Chavis Carter of Arkansas, Osman Hernandez in Salinas, Alan Bluford in Oakland, Rumain Brisbon in Arizona and Dontre Hamilton of Milawauke, Samantha Ramsey of Kentucky.. Within New York City we do not see the police owning up to the egregious killings of folks like Rhamarly Graham in the Bronx, Akai Gurley who was recently gunned down in Brooklyn or the slayings of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr and DJ Danroy Henry both in Westchester County right outside New York. In the case of Pace University student, Henry, the police have admitted lying and yet we have no indictments or convictions.. In the case of 70 year old Chamberlain Sr, the officer who shot and killed him was not indicted in spite of his now known history of racial hostility toward Black folks. . The slaying of these two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu change nothing about the harsh realities faced by the families whose loved ones were gunned down by police, lied upon by police, humiliated by police who remain unapologetic. Trying to draw some sort of connection to man who shot his girlfriend and then killed police to the plight of these innocent families suffering from police terrorism underscores my initial assertion about folks like Pat Lynch, Peter King, George Patakai and any other two bit apologist politician for police terror being racist, opportunistic with little regard to the officers slain.. Bottom line is we are fighting for justice and fighting to end police terrorism.. period.. For folks like Lynch and those who think like him, they are fighting to maintain unchallenged power and dominance over large segments of the population.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:36:17 +0000
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