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Louis Proyect wrote
(A familiar refrain as if being an ex-con excuses someone's knee on his
neck for over 8 minutes.)
“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd.
The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his
members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter.
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and
robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of
charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail
reported.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/george-floyd-had-violent-criminal-history-minneapolis-union-chief/
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["The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s “violent
criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his
death are the work of a “terrorist movement.”
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and
robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of
charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail
reported
<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html>."]
Sounds like there goes what middle class support there might have been
for the protests. The largest middle class buffer between the working
class and corporate power on the planet. More divide and rule.
And what charges will a middle class jury convict Chauvin for, let alone
the others charged, with this information before them? Especially now
that a Black Muslim State Attorney General, Keith Ellison, will now lead
the prosecution?
And what does that mean for any meaningful "reform" of police conduct?
We know the answer to that from the last 200+ years of racism -- squat.
So will the next murder of a Black person by the cops see increasingly
militarized police clamping down from the get-go, with surveillance,
drones, lethal automated weapons? And where do we go from there?
We're not rich enough to go into outer space and colonize with Jeff
Bezos and Elon Musk.
I visualize a response similar to the million-person gathering at the
Washington Monument against the US war on the Vietnamese people, only
next time, 3 million or 5 million pushing down the barriers around the
White House. Will the military follow their Comdr in Chief's orders to
fire on that many of their fellow beings? And then what?
Well, that's my vision.
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