From time to time, we talk about American execution squads that go around communities wearing police uniforms. Sadly, these killer squads are protected by the highest powers in the country, speaking of the Supreme Court.
Almost daily this medium delves into the many cases of the victims of America’s state-sponsored murder squads, which are truthfully paid for by people like you and me.
Try as we may, however, the voices that support these death squads, over 18,000 of them, are exponentially louder than the voices of those of us who want to live in a society governed by the rule of law, not one governed by a police state enforced by squads of uniformed killers.
At the risk of sounding repetitive and redundant, I continue to direct attention to the Supreme Court, which created on its own a policy called qualified immunity for police and other state actors that has morphed into qualified impunity by police.
We can legitimately argue that no category of workers should have qualified immunity. We could also legitimately argue that the Supreme Court, which is not a legislative body, had no business carving out a legislative framework that protects government workers from accountability when it was not legislated or has any basis constitutionally.
But we would be banging our heads against a wall in making the legitimate point that the court itself is illegitimate based on the way it has been populated using political chicanery and that some of the players on the court actually lied during their interviews for the job.
Any ordinary person seeking a job who lied would be fired, but that is a conversation for the future.
HERE IS THE STORY
A number of Ohio police officers are on paid leave following a chase that led to the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Black man Jayland Walker on Monday. Officers tried to pull Walker over in a traffic stop, and he led officers on a chase by car — and later by foot — prior to a confrontation, according to Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett. The chase lasted four-and-a-half minutes and reached speeds of up to about 80 mph, police said.
Officers used “tasers” and later “fired bullets” multiple times at Walker before his death, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
The officers involved in the fatal shooting have been put on paid leave, an action described as a “standard practice” by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Mylett declined to answer questions regarding the number of officers that fired at Walker, the newspaper said.
Seven of the eight officers reportedly involved in the shooting are white, Ohio news outlet WKYC-TV reported.
Police claimed that Walker “shot a gun” during the chase and a Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office report described a weapon “recovered” from his car, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Walker wasn’t armed when he was shot by officers, sources told WKYC-TV, and autopsy records revealed he was hit “dozens of times by a barrage of more than 90 shots.” Autopsy records revealed shots caused over 60 wounds to Walker’s body, the news outlet reported, with a “large majority” appearing in the front of his body. “Use of force cases are always ugly. This case is ugly times 10,” a police source with knowledge of the shooting told WKYC-TV. Walker’s aunt Lajuana Walker-Dawkins, in a press conference on Thursday, expressed her hopes that her late nephew wouldn’t be “portrayed as some thug.” “We want honor and dignity at any cost,” Walker-Dawkins said. “We don’t know what happened. And we’d like to know.” The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office, in a press release earlier this week, announced Walker’s death was a homicide, and he died from gunshot wounds. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation also plans to investigate the death per the Akron Police Department’s request, the Akron Beacon Journal said. Walker’s death has led to protests in the Ohio community, WKYC-TV reported. The city of Akron canceled a Fourth of July weekend event amid the demonstrations. “Independence Day is meant to be a celebration and a time of gathering with friends and family. Unfortunately, I feel strongly that this is not the time for a city-led celebration,” Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said in a statement. (Huffpost.com)
It has become routine for these armed gangs of states sponsored killers to murder Americans of color and receive paid vacations, after which we are told that they followed policy.
We must clearly understand from those statements that their policy is to murder us; nothing else is to be said about those comments.
The other BS they feed the public is that when their killers assassinate unarmed Americans, the investigations are conducted fairly by independent agencies.
This is the most laughable bullshit that they feed the populace, and they get away with it. In reality, those cases are usually investigated by police agencies the next county over by police officers who are afforded the same powers to kill without accountability.
Yet they can convince a willfully ignorant population that those investigative agencies will do a fair investigation when the next investigation may be directed at their agency and include their murderers.
American police officers across the country are trained to operate the way the very concept of policing was construed and formulated. That is as a slave-catching entity that is allowed to use whatever means necessary to capture Black bodies and return those chattels to the slave-owners. There are no more individual enslavers anymore; the states now undertake that role.
Any person operating a motor vehicle on any roadway anywhere in America is subject to the same treatment as any black person during slavery was exposed. This is the 21st century, and the fourth amendment to the constitution protects all Americans from unlawful searches and seizures by state agents; the Supreme Court has whittled away those protections paving the way for the police state to operate outside the walls of the constitution.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.