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By now pretty much everyone in the country and just about the whole world has heard that American police killed yet another unarmed black man - George Floyd - this time in Minneapolis. What most Americans probably haven’t heard is, as cruel an injustice as the Minneapolis PD murder of George Floyd was, it is only one of the approximately 1,200 Americans killed by police every single year. A large number of these people are unarmed, and what may come as a complete shock to many is that quite a few of these victims of the increasingly brutal and deadly American Police State are in fact white Americans.
And yet for some reason this is the one killing that has sparked massive protests, which have since turned into violent riots and rapidly spreading civil unrest across the country. People don’t turn out to protest in these numbers over one death and violence in the form of riots on this large of a scale doesn’t just erupt out of nowhere. This event was simply the trigger that set off the powder keg of bottled up American anger - anger at the increasingly oppressive, brutal and deadly police state system we are now subject to in this country. People were already being pushed to the edge of sanity by months of senseless covid19 business closures, lockdowns and other inhumane measures that did nothing to stop a virus that isn’t any more deadly than the common flu. All it took to set the people off was the televising of this crime by just another killer cop.
Mainstream coverage would have you believe that this sort of a heinous crime is a fairly rare occurrence, thus the seemingly disproportionate response by the enraged masses, and that such cop killings when they do take place are fundamentally aimed at blacks. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Such police killings have become so commonplace that 2-4 Americans are killed by police every day, and these victims are not just black but also white and Latino as well. The stories are always the same. Someone ‘reaches for a gun’ at a routine traffic stop and is executed at point blank range, only the victim was clearly reaching for their wallet. A police chase ends in the cops using deadly force to stop the fleeing victim, claiming they were armed, only video footage released months later reveals the victim was completely unarmed, and in some cases weapons are planted by the police after the killing. A citizen stands up for his rights or questions an officer’s authority, provoking the angered cop(s) to begin dishing out a brutal tasering session or beat down that ends in the victim’s death. A ‘suspect’ ‘resists arrest’ and so the officer suffocates him to death. An officer gives incomprehensible and contradicting commands that cannot all be followed at once and so the ‘suspect’ is executed for ‘not following commands’. Sometimes the victims are even shot to death at point blank range with their hands in the air.
In every case, we are told the killer cop is either ‘justified’ for his clearly excessive use of force, or, when the case is so obviously savage and that excuse doesn’t fly, that the cop is just a bad apple - one of the few ‘bad cops’ ruining the reputation of all the other ‘good cops’. Such is the case with this story, where all four cops involved with the murder have been charged.
Typically, however, killer cops are first put on paid leave during any investigation, and at worst eventually fired, before commonly being re-hired at a different police department where they can continue their taxpayer-funded reign of terror against the taxpayers. In other cases they are given a promotion and a raise to honor their ‘valiant service’. Trials are rare, even when the video footage of the killing clearly depicts unjustifiable and often brutal murder, and convictions are even more rare. Not much more is to be expected of investigations into police misconduct by the police themselves, and trials overseen by judged paid by the same state that pays the cops. The system always covers for the system, and in a few rare cases the system sacrifices one of their own to save the image of the system.
In many cases, particularly the most heinous brutal murders by beatdown, repetitive tasering or slow suffocation as with George Floyd, the ‘bad cop’ held responsible for killing is surrounded by a large number of ‘good cops’ who at best stand by and watch as they do nothing to intervene, and at worst get involved in the beatdown or in the cheering on of the brutality by the fellow ‘bad cop’. It happens over and over and over again, too many times to count, that we should really begin questioning the narrative that the majority of the police force are ‘good cops’ with just a few ‘bad apples’ ruining the ‘honorable’ police reputation.
Killer cops aside, rampant police brutality has reached epidemic levels. For every American killed by police, there are three or four or even a dozen more subjected to unwarranted brutality every single day. Of the countless police beat downs that take place on a daily basis, only a fraction of them end in death; most just end in hospitalization of the victim most commonly charged with ‘resisting arrest.’ This all is on top of the daily harassment, extortion through fines, and imprisonment of hundreds of nonviolent traffic and drug ‘offenders’ every single day, some of them even innocent of the nonviolent charges against them! It is a system built on fraud, extortion and injustice, with the violence only being the latest and darkest manifestation of an already inherently corrupt system.
People aren’t rioting because of the murder of George Floyd, they are rioting because the murder of George Floyd is an every day occurrence, and time and time again there is not even a semblance of justice; rarely do these police killings even garner mainstream coverage as this one has. People are taking to the streets to protest en masse not because the murder of George Floyd is anything unusual but because the video footage of this particular crime was captured and released immediately, went viral, and was then televised. That is why people all across the country are turning out to protest on a daily basis now, demanding justice, and that is why there are riots and civil unrest is spreading.
It is unclear whether the mainstream media coverage of this killing was orchestrated as part of a pre-planned event used to intentionally spark violent civil unrest, or whether the corporate news was ‘forced’ to cover this story because of the viral footage, but either way they are spinning the narrative to push the police state/government agenda as they always do.
Corporate media loves to fuel the racial divide when the real divide is between peace-loving Americans and an increasingly oppressive government using increasingly brutal police tactics to enforce their tyranny, and this is no exception. That is why this story is being covered as a few ‘bad’ police officers targeting another unarmed black man rather than systematic corrupt brutal police targeting yet another innocent American. And that is why American are turning up to protest the killing of George Floyd all around the country holding ‘Black Lives Matter’ signs, and probably not one of them turned out to protest the last police killing of an unarmed white civilian, or the one before that, or before that, or before that.
Black lives do matter, but unfortunately for every black life taken by police that garners enough coverage to propel the masses onto the streets to protest, there are hundreds to thousands of black lives being lost every single day in Africa, as a direct consequence of ‘post-colonialist’ western colonial exploitation of the Third World. There are hundreds of African children dying every day from starvation. There are countless more Africans dying from easily curable disease because they can’t afford the few dollars for antibiotics, or anti-malaria medicine; more dying from easily avoidable diseases because they can’t afford clean water. Yet you don’t see us taking to the streets over that, probably because the mainstream media won’t say one word about it, ever. Mum is the word when it comes to black lives in Africa.
Why is this happening and why won’t the media talk about it, when they incessantly push the ‘black lives matter’ narrative whenever it suites their divide and conquer agenda? Because of US-led Western exploitation of African resources and colonial foreign policies designed to keep Africa poor while providing western citizens with cheaper goods in order to make US and Western corporations even richer.
Black lives do matter, but so do white lives - white lives that just like black lives continue to be taken by the increasingly brutal, deadly and oppressive American Police State. Black lives do matter, but sadly for every black life taken by the US Empire’s domestic police state that suddenly ‘matters’ on TV and to the enraged masses, there are thousands more taken by the the US Empire’s foreign policy fueled by corporate greed and rampant consumerism that will never matter to the Television pundits or to the materialistic masses.
And yet it was the murder of George Floyd that was televised, that is currently highlighting the inherent injustice of the domestic enforcers of the US Empire, and that has not only led to widespread ongoing protests around the country, but also increasingly widespread riots and violent civil unrest. This violence has in turn led to increased police crackdowns and lockdowns in large cities, just as similar lockdowns were beginning to be lifted on the tail end of the covid19 scamdemic.
It is almost as if this event was pre-planned and engineered to be the trigger for the continuation of lockdowns that the crumbling covid19 narrative are no longer able to sustain. Even if the killing of George Floyd and subsequent televising of the senseless murder was not planned, it is highly likely that the government used agent provocateurs to incite violence amongst the protesters and ignite the violent riots that now continue to spread. It is a commonly used tactic by the FBI and other government agencies, to infiltrate protests and incite violence to create violent ‘criminal’ opposition to point their fingers at to discredit the protesters, and also to justify further police crackdowns of the protests and more tyrannical government measures.
This tactic of infiltration was successfully employed during the Occupy Wall Street protests, and we know that the Black Lives Matter movement was infiltrated and co-opted soon after its initial inception as a movement. When the group took a hardline anti Israeli-apartheid stance incorporating BDS (Boycott-Divest-Sanction Israel) into its platform, if not from its very inception, its leadership was infiltrated and BDS (awith any anti-Zionist components along with it) was removed. This is nothing new, and such infiltration goes all the way back to the Civil Rights movement, which was probably only resistant to this infiltration and successful as a movement because of MLK’s strong nonviolent stance.
You cannot defeat a violent system with violence. By attempting to do so, you eventually become the very evil you claim to be fighting against or seeking to eradicate. Whether initially orchestrated by infiltrators or simply a natural reaction to systematic oppression and police brutality arising spontaneously from this one event, the violence of the rioters will only be used to further the government agenda and increase the police brutality and tyranny protesters wish to bring an end to. The violent ones love a violent face to direct their violence towards; it justifies their violence in the eyes of the masses. It also allows them to more easily implement further, tighter controls and tyrannical measures which they would otherwise be hard pressed to do.
Whether the protesters realize it or not, those who have allowed their anger to push them to violence are playing right into the hands of their oppressor which they outwardly seem to be revolting against. Some will say that force is the only language that violent oppressors understand, but just as it is impossible to put out a fire by adding more fuel to it, so violence always begets more violence. The police will use this violence to further entrench their us vs. them mindset and to justify increasingly excessive use of force in the days and weeks and months to come.
As police precincts burn, CNN headquarters are attacked, and businesses looted, the beginning of a violent revolution may already be underway. Will banks and political headquarters be the next targets or will the rioters turn more and more towards senseless looting and vandalism of any private business in their path? Will this fade away, or was the murder of George Floyd the trigger that ignites revolution or civil war, much like the shot heard round the world over two centuries ago? It was bound to happen eventually, with class inequality reaching unprecedented levels, the eradication of the American middle class and the rapidly increasing wealth gap between the ultra-rich minority and the poor majority growing larger every day. Covid19 economic shutdown only increased the speed of this economic disparity and further highlighted these issues.
Riots on this scale aren’t just ignited out of the blue; there are numerous causes lurking beneath the surface just waiting for a trigger, and this was apparently that trigger. Where things go from here is anyone’s guess.
Either way and regardless of the identity of the true instigators, those protesters resorting to violence are doing a great disservice to all of the millions of peace and freedom loving Americans who are sick and tired of the rampant police corruption, brutality, and daily killings. Such cases of police misconduct and unchecked violence will inevitably only increase in number due to the violence of rioters across the country. For decades revolution has been inevitable, and was in fact already underway before millions of Americans began turning out to the streets to protest. It isn’t the first time Americans have taken to the streets by the millions to protest the system, and just look at movements such as the Yellow Vests in France. Humanity is already in the process of revolting against the New World Order. The question now is whether that revolution will remain predominantly peaceful, or is this the beginning of a more widespread violent uprising?
We can only hope for the former, for if the violence continues to spread, so will the very police state tyranny that the protestors initially turned out to shine a light on in the first place. Riots don’t just break out over nothing. The people have a right to be angry, and this is just the beginning of that anger bubbling to the surface. Channeling that anger into nonviolent resistance is the only way to bring down the system. Any violent resistance only continues to feed the very system of violence that protesters are protesting, throwing more fuel on an already very hot fire. The masses uniting for justice, peace and freedom, and throwing off all MSM-driven divisive slogans and messages such as ‘black lives matter’ is the only way humanity will eventually prevail against her oppressors.
And if people insist on continuing to chant slogans and hold signs insisting that ‘black lives matter’, could they at least begin acting like it, and start shining a light on the plight of black lives in Africa being ruined by the same corrupt system that killed George Floyd? At least we could do that.