When the state fails to address the law enforcement crisis,agitating in the streets is the only way to crawl forwardAmerica has been rocked by countless protests over the past few years. One chant that has been heard from activists time and time again is: “Whose streets? Our streets!” That’s why it was so jarring when, this week, or police in St Louis marched the streets shouting the line as they broke up a valid protest and arrested 80 people,including a journalist covering the events.
Sadly, St Louis isn’t the only place plagued by a tall-profile police killing this week. A student was killed by campus police in Georgia, and a deaf Hispanic man was killed by police in Oklahoma (despite calls that “he can’t hear”). Still,St Louis has, once again, and emerged as the place where the national crisis of American police violence against black people has come into the clearest focus. There was like a 1:1 ratio of violence threatening cops to peaceful protesters #BlackLivesMatter #nojusticenoprofit pic.twitter.com/CNMGUgKEFNContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com