Afgelopen vrijdag werd Rayshard Brooks terwijl hij wegrende van
een politieagent, in de rug geschoten, hij zou een direct gevaar
vormen voor de 2 agenten die hem aan een ademtest wilden onderwerpen,
puur en alleen omdat hij ‘s morgens vroeg slapend werd
aangetroffen op een parkeerterrein van een Wendy’s filiaal…..
De
agenten beweerden dat hij een direct gevaar vormde daar hij een taser
van één van de agenten afnam en die tijdens zijn vlucht ‘op hen
richtte’. Weet niet hoe het met jou zit, maar als ik wegren en
probeer een wapen te richten op degenen die achter me loopt, terwijl
ik mijn ogen gericht moet houden op het vluchtpad en eventuele
obstakels, is het praktisch onmogelijk iemand te treffen, althans met
een pistool…. Een taser is bovendien een korte afstandswapen en anders dan bij
een pistool moet je dan dichtbij iemand zijn om deze te
kunnen raken, echter uit beelden blijkt dat Brooks te ver van de
agenten verwijderd was om van een echte bedreiging te kunnen
spreken….. Volgens de politie kon men Brooks niet laten lopen met een wapen (de taser) van de politie, terwijl je in de VS als particulier ook zo’n wapen kan en mag kopen……
Kortom
de agent die Brooks vermoordde heeft dat doelbewust gedaan en
heeft daarna geprobeerd om de taser als excuus te gebruiken voor het vermoorden
van een gekleurde burger……. Kortom alweer een gekleurde burger om niets vermoord
door de politie…….
Intussen
is ten overvloede gebleken dat tijdens recente verkiezingen in de VS het de
gekleurde burgers uitermate moeilijk werd gemaakt om te stemmen en velen daadwerkelijk hun stem niet konden uitbrengen….
Het hieronder opgenomen schrijven is een vraag om geld van Voter Suppression Alert, een onderdeel van
Demand Progress.org, waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe de laatste verkiezing
in Georgia is verlopen. Daarna een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over de moord op Rayshard Brooks, waarin ook zij wijst op andere staten waar men het gekleurde mensen moeilijk, zo niet onmogelijk maakt om te stemmen (vergeet wat het stemmen betreft niet dat Trump een paar maanden geleden heeft gesteld dat wanneer iedere burger in de VS die mag stemmen en dat zou doen, de Republikeinen nooit weer aan de macht zullen komen….):
This is how Trump wins
Voter
Suppression Alert <info@demandprogress.org>
Georgia’s primary election
on Tuesday was an absolute disaster.
Four-hour-long lines.
Malfunctioning voting machines. Tens of thousands of absentee ballots
“lost” in the mail.1,2 It was so bad that there have
been calls for United Nations elections monitors to step in.3
And as usual, these
problems were worse in majority Black precincts.4
Georgia’s voting disaster is being
called a “giant warning siren” for what could happen in
November.5 If Congress doesn’t act now, millions of voters
could be disenfranchised or forced to choose between their health and
their civic duty.
Once
the coronavirus pandemic began, Georgia’s election officials asked
voters repeatedly to request absentee ballots in order to alleviate
pressure on understaffed polling places. The
voters complied with
more than 1.5 million requests for mail-in ballots.6
But the state didn’t hold up its
end of the bargain. More than 60,000 people hadn’t received their
ballots by the last days before the day of the primary, and those who
did were told to return the ballots in envelopes that didn’t exist,
along with other confusing instructions.7,8
On the day of the election, the
state implemented new voting machines in some districts—machines
that experts said were not ready to be deployed—which immediately
malfunctioned.9Polling places in the
Atlanta metro area—a section of Georgia that is predominantly
people of color—were understaffed and unprepared for the people
needing to vote in person, while polling places in whiter, richer
areas had fewer problems.10
Social media was flooded with pictures of hours-long lines in the
Atlanta area, while other places had no lines at all.11
As former gubernatorial candidate
Stacey Abrams said, “It is a disaster that was very preventable,
emblematic of the deeply systemic issues” Georgia has.12
But it’s clear that Georgia’s leadership has no interest in
preventing these failures.
It’s not just Georgia whose
election suffered during the primary. In Pennsylvania, thousands of
voters were sent the wrong ballot. Maryland had outdated registration
lists. Washington, DC, wasn’t able to fulfill many absentee ballot
requests and had fewer than 15% of its polling places open due to the
coronavirus.13
Experts are predicting a second
wave of the coronavirus in the fall, right around the general
election.14 If we want every state to have the mandate and
the resources for a successful vote-by-mail program and give everyone
a chance to have their voices heard in November, Congress must pass a
nationwide vote-by-mail law with the next coronavirus bill. More than
100,000 Demand Progress members have emailed Congress asking for a
vote-by-mail law, and now we’re going to step up our campaign.
Will
you donate to help pass vote-by-mail legislation and protect our
civic rights in November?
Thanks for standing with us.
Robert Cruickshank,
Demand
Progress
Sources:
1. CNN, “‘A giant warning siren’: Concerns about November’s
election grow after Georgia’s disastrous primary,” June
11, 2020
2. 11 Alive, “What if you never got your
absentee ballot? You’ve got options,” June
8, 2020
3. Esquire,
“Georgia Is Screaming Out for U.N. Election Monitors,” June
9, 2020
4. NBC News, “Georgia election ‘catastrophe’ in
largely minority areas sparks investigation,” June
9, 2020
5. CNN, “‘A giant warning siren’: Concerns about
November’s election grow after Georgia’s disastrous primary,”
June
11, 2020
6. The New
York Times, “Beyond
Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand
Vote-by-Mail” June
11, 2020
7. Ibid.
8. Atlanta
Journal Constitution,
“Georgia absentee voting instructions to be corrected,”
April
28, 2020
9. The New
York Times, “‘I
Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown,”
June
11, 2020
10. Ibid.
11. Tweet by Brent Peabody, June
9, 2020
12. The New
York Times, “‘I
Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown,”
June
11, 2020
13. The New
York Times, “Beyond
Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand
Vote-by-Mail” June
11, 2020
14. CNN, “Another wave of coronavirus will
likely hit the US in the fall. Here’s why and what we can do to stop
it,” May
2, 2020
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Terug
naar de laatste politiemoord op Rayshard Brooks, een gekleurd VS burger (althans de laatste moord voor
zover nu bekend is, voor hetzelfde geld heeft er alweer zo’n moord
plaatsgevonden): één en ander geeft ook aan dat er opnieuw een reden
is om verder over tasergebruik te spreken, blijkbaar vinden een groot
aantal agenten in de VS dat de taser een dodelijk wapen is, dit
vanwege negatieve ervaringen bij gebruik door de politie van dit martelwerktuig,
alleen daarom al zou tasergebruik, ook in Nederland verboden moeten
worden!!! (de politietop van New York heeft de taser jaren geleden al verboden!!)
Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone:
The
Killing Of Rayshard Brooks Shows How Police “Reform” Is A Joke
A
black man named Rayshard Brooks was recently killed by an Atlanta
police officer who shot
him in the back
while he was attempting to run away.
Video
footage from the
police bodycam
and a
nearby witness makes
it clear that Brooks resisted arrest after failing a breathalyzer
test when police approached him sleeping in his car at a Wendy’s
parking lot, punching an officer and taking a taser the police had
attempted to use on him before trying to flee the scene. Video
footage from the parking lot makes
it clear that Brooks was running away, and, without ceasing to run,
pointed the taser at police behind him, at which point he was shot
twice in the back by an officer named
Garrett Rolfe.
Courtney Bryant
✔
@CourtneyDBryant
New video released by the GBI shows the moment #Atlanta police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Police say Rayshard Brooks grabbed a taser and pointed it at police before an officer fired shots.
See Courtney Bryant’s other Tweets
(voor het zien van de video in dit bericht klik hier voor het origineel)
There
is no rational defense of this shooting. If someone is running away
from you with a short-range weapon, it is literally impossible for
them to pose an imminent threat to you. Just allowing Brooks to run
out of the range of the taser, as he was already trying to do, would
have nullified any potential threat to either of the two officers on
the scene, because it would have been literally impossible for Brooks
to tase them while continuing to run in the direction he was running.
This
indisputable and self-evident fact hasn’t stopped people from
bleating moronic police apologia in my social media notifications
since the shooting occurred.
-
They
claim Brooks could have tased an officer and taken his gun (again,
let Brooks take himself out of taser range and there’s exactly zero
risk of this happening). -
They
claim they couldn’t just let a “dangerous” criminal run
around with a police weapon (it’s a taser; you can buy them at
Walmart. What’s he going to do? Go on a mass tasing rampage?). -
They
claim the cop had to execute Brooks because he posed a “danger
to society” (it is not a cop’s job to act as judge, jury and
executioner in determining whether someone poses a general threat to
society; that’s what the courts are for). -
They
claim if you punch a cop you deserve whatever you get (believing,
because they are authority-worshipping bootlickers, that a cop being
punched is worse than a civilian being killed by gunfire). -
They
claim if you don’t follow police instructions then of course you’re
at risk of being killed (yes, police doing inexcusably brutal things
is the problem that people are trying to address here).
Even
leaving aside any debate about policing as it exists in America
today, there was absolutely no excuse for Rolfe’s behavior. They had
all of Brooks’ information. They had his car. They knew where he
lives. They could have followed him in their car and called for
backup. They could have gone in with backup to arrest him later.
But
Rolfe decided to kill. After watching all these protests against
police brutality raging throughout his country since the murder of
George Floyd, after being confronted with with all the public outrage
about police killing black men day after day in news headline after
news headline, after his society forced him to contemplate police
violence and his role in it, Garrett Rolfe still decided to kill.
After all that, he watched a black man running away from him, posing
no threat to him whatsoever, and he decided to kill.
The
fact that cops are so thoroughly inoculated against public demand
that they change their behavior makes a complete farce of the decoy
police “reform” agenda that establishment narrative
managers have been actively trying to corral the current protest
movement into to kill their support for police abolishment.
Let me pick up on what @staceyabrams just said. #DefundThePolice slogan is being used to divide us. She called for transformation of police, that’s much stronger than just reform but not distracting like defunding. #TransformThePolice is appealing to most people & sounds strong.
There’s
a feud going on in America’s new protest movement right now between
those who wish to abolish, defund, dismantle, and/or disarm the
police, and those who want to “reform” or “transform”
the police. The former are actually pushing for a revolutionary
change which actually pushes back against abusive power structures
and calls for the creation of a radically different social paradigm,
while the latter wants to keep policing institutions in their
irredeemably
corrupt state and
add more funding for “de-escalation” training seminars
where grown adults are told not to commit gratuitous acts of
violence.
Training
seminars which, it turns out, Officer Garrett Rolfe had just
completed.
“According
to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Rolfe
had recently received use of force training,” reports
Atlanta news outlet AJC. “On April 24, he took a nine-hour
course on de-escalation options, his record shows. And on Jan. 9,
Rolfe was trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County
police academy.”
And
yet you’ve got fauxgressive establishment narrative managers like
Cenk Uygur promoting
the reform agenda and
calling calls to defund the police “distracting”.
I
wrote
the other day
that “if these protests end it won’t be because tyrants in the
Republican Party like Donald Trump and Tom Cotton succeeded in making
the case for beating them into silence with the US military. It will
be because liberal manipulators succeeded in co-opting and stagnating
its momentum.” This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking
about.
.@NYGovCuomo
suggests protesters pack it up, in light of new reforms: “People are
still out protesting. You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. You
accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need
systemic reform.”
People
who claim these protests are the result of some kind of psyop often
cite the fact that they’re being supported by establishment liberals,
mainstream media, and giant corporations, but this misses a very
important distinction in the dynamic that is at play here. While it
is true that these institutions have been expressing general support
for the demonstrations and the idea that black lives matter, what
absolutely none of them have been doing is supporting the defunding
or abolishment of America’s police force. None of the empire’s
ruling elites support this.
The
reason you are seeing manipulation and attempts at co-option in this
new movement is because that is exactly what’s happening. But it
isn’t what’s driving
the enthusiasm behind the demonstrations. Rather, you are seeing an
attempted hijacking of an actual revolutionary agenda that actually
challenges actual power institutions (including increasingly common
attempts to manipulate the narrative by claiming demands to defund
and abolish are actually just calls for reform).
The
widespread call to abolish America’s police state, an integral
part of the glue
which holds the US-centralized empire together, is revolutionary. It
is not an exaggeration to say it’s as interesting and exciting as
seeing a mainstream call to end US imperialism, and it is just as
threatening to establishment power structures. The call for “reform”,
in contrast, is just more milquetoast, Obamaesque fauxgressive
verbiage designed to stagnate a real revolutionary change movement.
It is as interesting and as threatening to establishment power
structures as saying the US should push regime change in
Syria rather than Iran.
Police
abolishment advocates are pushing for something which would require
the complete reconfiguration of power in society to accomplish, where
the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs are ended and what
we think of as policing can for example be mostly replaced by
something more akin to social work. Police “reform”
proponents are advancing a decoy agenda which people have
been distracted by for generations while
the police force has become increasingly militarized behind a veil of
meaningless verbiage about community outreach and training programs.
austin walker
✔
@austin_walker
It’s not just that Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, per his spox, its that he believes cops just don’t have enough resources for reform. Would be laughable if it wasn’t so dire. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1270041926373462016 …
The Hill
✔
@thehill
JUST IN: Biden campaign opposes calls to “defund the police” http://hill.cm/GwVh39n
This
is where the real revolutionary energy is at in America right now, so
it’s no wonder establishment manipulators are doing everything they
can to co-opt it into something innocuous which won’t disturb actual
power structures in the slightest. Obama made a whole political
career out of telling leftwardly inclined Americans that they’re
getting what they want without actually giving it to them, and now
we’ve got Democratic Party princeling Andrew Cuomo telling New York
protesters “You don’t need to protest. You won. You won.
You
accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need
systemic reform.”
It’s
textbook liberal manipulation used to steer the revolutionary
zeitgeist into an impotent conceptual tar pit for another few years
while the prison bars are reinforced.
As
I explained a while back in my article “How
To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff“,
you can tell what’s really going on by watching where the money is
going, where the weapons are going, where the resources are going and
where the people are going. You can see in these demands for
dismantling the police state a bunch of people moving around
demanding to drastically change all four of these things, and you can
see from the liberal narrative managers an agenda to prevent any of
those four things from actually changing.
And if they win out, you
will be able to watch the people, police, weapons and resources
continue moving in more or less the exact same way they’ve been
moving.
They’re
trying to replace a real revolutionary impulse with useless narrative
fluff. They have learned that it is much easier to neuter such
impulses with empty agreement and a bunch of insubstantial words than
to tell them no and stomp them down. Hopefully, the people have
learned this too.
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‘Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup‘ (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)
‘Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt‘
‘Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog‘
‘Obama en ‘change’ n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord‘
‘Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!!‘ (minder brekend dan het aanvankelijk leek te zijn)
‘Black Lives Matter: een cartoon‘
‘Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef‘
‘Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘
‘Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld‘
Het label BLM (direct onder dit bericht) staat voor Black Lives Matter.