Jun 29, 2020
It has been a time it seems that many have anticipated, but whose timing could never precisely be predicted. After 40 years of economic policies designed to create massive income inequality and after 400 years of oppression of African-Americans, and in the midst of an historic pandemic--the social explosion has occurred.
A protest begun by yet another police killing of an unarmed black man filmed with mobile phones spread in days beyond the United States. One act of police brutality has led to hundreds of horrific incidents of police violence, dramatic exposing what the true nature of the American police appears to be. .
Forget the shield for a moment and what one sees are heavily-armed, black-clad agents of state violence to protect powerful interests from a population, being defrauded and deceived, suddenly no longer accepting it. The very essence of a 30-year program to militarize local police seemed geared towards just this moment, when an abused nation would not not take it anymore.