The Shootings And Killings Have Grown From The Ridiculous And Absurd To The Grotesque.

As the Republican Convention came to a close people across the Globe had a chance to see what America will look like for the next four years if Donald J Trump is elected President.
On the day that the convention ended the so-called main-stream media was forced to pick up a story which has been trending for a couple of days prior, even as the media coalesce around the clown-show which was the republican convention.

Even as the con­tin­ued killing of unarmed black Americans con­tin­ue to dom­i­nate the talk­ing points on social media and real America, the Republican nom­i­nee dou­bles down on defend­ing the police with not a sin­gle men­tion of the rea­sons which are fuel­ing the anger behind the assaults on police officers.

Donald Trump’s speech , dark ‚gloomy, fore­bod­ing and rid­dled with lies, opened up a win­dow into what a Trump Presidency would look like.
Many of the Republican pun­dits seek to make an equiv­a­lence between accep­tance speech­es giv­en by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and the drea­ry ram­blings of Trump which passed as an accep­tance speech..
Ironically, the hyp­o­crit­i­cal evan­gel­i­cal hero-wor­ship of Ronald Reagan was not based on any­thing fac­tu­al, but on a myth­i­cal shin­ing city on a hill which exist­ed only in their warped imiginations..

People of col­or are left won­der­ing when was America great under Ronald Reagan ? If Ronald Reagan’s pres­i­den­cy is the high water mark of American great­ness they want to have none of it.
According to Policy.mic , Reagan’s trans­for­ma­tion from actor to seri­ous polit­i­cal fig­ure began in the 1960s, first with a nation­al­ly tele­vised speech on behalf of pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Barry Goldwater and then with his elec­tion as gov­er­nor of California. This was also the decade in which the civ­il rights bills that end­ed legal­ized racism were passed … and Reagan was on record oppos­ing all of them, includ­ing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Reagan con­tin­ued this pat­tern as pres­i­dent by gut­ting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), fight­ing the exten­sion of the Voting Rights Act, veto­ing the Civil Rights Restoration Act (which required all recip­i­ents of fed­er­al funds to com­ply with civ­il rights laws) and ini­tial­ly oppos­ing the cre­ation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (he changed his tune when it passed Congress with a veto-proof majority). 

Reagan vetoed an anti-apartheid bill. Reagan sup­port­ed the exploita­tion of Mexican-American farm work­ers. Reagan ille­gal­ly sold weapons to Iran and helped cre­ate the Taliban and Osama bin Laden régime. Reagan’s eco­nom­ic poli­cies caused a spike in unem­ploy­ment and led to severe income inequality.

None of these facts will have any impres­sion on the will­ful igno­rant and those who have no desire to know, nei­ther will the litany of oth­er transgressions.
Even Richard Nixon’s so-called law and order accep­tance speech of 1968 was far less omi­nous than Trumps and far less than some made it out to be . In fact that speech had a lot that peo­ple could look to hope­ful­ly. Find link here. http://​www​.pres​i​den​cy​.ucsb​.edu/​w​s​/​?​p​i​d​=​2​5​968 .

People around the world look on in hor­ror and dis­may as the bound­aries of log­ic are incred­u­lous­ly stretched in the mul­ti­plic­i­ty of police shoot­ings of African men and boys. Regardless of the inher­ent crim­i­nal con­duct of the offi­cers, police apol­o­gist and the American media cre­ate an alter­na­tive nar­ra­tive which shifts respon­si­bil­i­ty from the rogue offi­cers onto the inno­cent victims.
This is done using dif­fer­ent nar­ra­tives such as releas­ing the vic­tim’s crim­i­nal record. Demonizing the vic­tim. Or seek­ing to con­vince the pub­lic that what they wit­nessed in clear con­cise video record­ings can­not be trust­ed for authen­tic­i­ty. We are told that we do not know what tran­spired before the record­ing com­menced, even though the killings are usu­al­ly so grotesque that noth­ing could have pre­ced­ed them which could pos­si­bly jus­ti­fy the killing anyway.

I was shocked and appalled at the nar­ra­tive which was used to jus­ti­fy the alleged 41 bul­lets mem­bers of a NYPD unit fired at 22 year-old Amadou Diallo, in the Bronx in 1999.
Mister Diallo who hailed from west Africa was gunned down by four NYPD cops who alleged they thought he had a gun. They fired a report­ed forty one(41) bul­lets at the young man hit­ting him a total of nine­teen times(19) killing him on the spot.
The most appalling thing I heard from police and their apol­o­gists was a term I had nev­er heard pri­or relat­ing to police offi­cers killing mem­bers of the public.

INFECTIOUS FIRING.….

Even wars have rules of engage­ments. The Geneva Convention to which the United States is sig­na­to­ry pre­vents sol­diers from indis­crim­i­nate­ly killing even sol­diers who were just fir­ing at the vic­tor as long as they indi­cate they want to surrender.
I had nev­er before heard, nei­ther did I believe that police offi­cers and those who cov­er the wrongs they do could argue that they fired their ser­vice weapons because their col­leagues were firing.
I was trained to respect life and to under­stand that every round an offi­cer fired must be account­ed for. Not just for audit pur­pos­es but must be legal­ly and moral­ly jus­ti­fied. Under Rudolph Giuliani the seeds of police abuse were plant­ed in new York City.

Police offi­cers across the civ­i­lized world are gov­erned by a pro­to­col which is basi­cal­ly to pro­tect life . Under those rules an offi­cer must be total­ly jus­ti­fied and have exhaust­ed all non-lethal means pos­si­ble, where pos­si­ble, before using lethal force.
Notwithstanding, that was the expla­na­tion used for the reck­less, cal­lous and bla­tant dis­re­gard those cops dis­played for the life of mis­ter Diallo and any­one who may have been in the vicin­i­ty of their so called sphere of infec­tious firing.

Since the death of mis­ter Diallo the list of Americans killed indis­crim­i­nate­ly by police across the United States has increased exponentially.
As the num­ber of bod­ies increase the expla­na­tion and excus­es for the killings have grown from the ridicu­lous and absurd to the grotesque.
The sys­tem did not pun­ish any of the four cops for killing Amadou Diallo, they were all cleared of wrong doing. One, Kenneth Boss, was pro­mot­ed to sergeant, after the killing.

There was noth­ing in Donald Trumps speech which rec­og­nized this trav­es­ty hap­pen­ing across America. What Donald Trump promised the coun­try was that he would stand behind police with­out equivocation.
This is what’s in store for men and women of col­or under a Donald Trump administration.
This is fascism .…..