Minneapolis Solidarity Demo in Oakland

Another police killing of a black man, this time in broad daylight on Memorial Day, with cell phone and store cameras rolling, a Minneapolis cop, Derek Chauvin, put his knee on handcuffed George Floyd's neck while Floyd was on the ground for some unknown reason instead of in a police car if the police intended to arrest him, and suffocated him to death, on the first stated pretext of forgery, then arresting arrest, and now the story is a counterfeit 20 dollar bill. Chauvin and the 3 cops who stood by making sure Chauvin could carry out the murder were fired but none has been arrested and charged.

Chauvin has a history of participating in police shootings in his 19 years as a cop. See https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/28/headlines/minneapolis_erupts_in_flames_as_protesters_rage_against_police_killing_of_george_floyd

Black Agenda Report has a comprehensive article on this subject and the 400 year police state terrorism against black people at "The Blue Plague and Black Death" by Glen Ford, 5/27/20 at
https://www.blackagendareport.com/blue-plague-and-black-death

As the Black Agenda article states:
“The Blue Plague is a serial killer that dates back to the slave patrols of the pre-Civil War South.”

The author, Glen Ford, then describes the history of the slave patrols, now called police, in terrorizing and murdering black people, especially black men. He then goes on to describe the black Democrats, he calls the Black Misleadership Class, in supporting the police state as follows:

"Although Black people had hoped that the historic expansion in the number of Black elected officials would create political antibodies to limit the spread of the Blue Plague, the opposite has happened. In 2014, just months before Michael Brown’s life was cut short by the Blue Plague, in Ferguson, Missouri, 80 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to continue funneling billions of dollars in military weapons, gear and training to local infestations of the plague, despite ample evidence that such infusions have made the scourge even more toxic to Black life. Four years later, 75 percent of the Black Caucus voted to classify the Blue Plague as a “protected class,” further immunizing the disease from the possibility of cure. The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 was “superfluous, since cops are already the most protected ‘class’ in the nation.”"

"A number of plague control formulas have been put forward , but the Black Misleadership Class, deeply embedded in the Democratic Party, fiercely resists any curb on the blue contagion, and actively encourages the spread of the disease among the federal secret police. In March of this year, two thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus joined with a large majority of Democrats in support of the wildly misnamed USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, which has since passed the Senate , as well. Only 17 of the 50 full-voting Black members of the House voted against the law, which was supposed to expire this year along with other provisions of the infamous Patriot Act. As reported in The Verge , the Act allows the FBI “to collect ‘tangible things’ related to national security investigations without a warrant, requiring only approval from a secret court that has reportedly rubber-stamped many requests.” These tangible things include spying on targeted peoples’ web browsing “without having to demonstrate that those Americans have done anything wrong,” in the words of Oregon Sen. Wyden."

“The Black Misleadership Class, deeply embedded in the Democratic Party, fiercely resists any curb on the blue contagion.”

"The Blue contagion has spread around the world as the United States deploys its vast military as a kind of global police force, backed up by killer drones that carry out White House authorized executions in the far reaches of the planet. President Barack Obama authorized a regular schedule of snuff jobs on “Kill Tuesdays ,” but President Trump’s timetable is probably more erratic."

Only Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party oppose any support of the police state or the military.

Clearly, the United States is not a democracy; it is a fascist oligarchy. The police murder of George Floyd would make Hitler proud. That is why we chant the battle cry of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance: Never Forgive, Never Forget!

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