Hello
Thank you Brian sharing your outrage; besides the points you mention, we
should also be clear about the origins and purposes of policing; while
globally there are obvious similarities there are also distinctions and
these can be telling. Without going into all the details, in the U.S.
the origins are connected to slavery and the posses that marauded and
ran wild throughout the South and parts of the North; the Underground
Railroad was not only a train that led to freedom but also the means to
avoid slave-catchers - early incarnations of the modern police. Here
lies the immorality and cultural bedrock that underpins most (if not
all) police forces in the U.S.. The absolutely wanton hand-out of
military equipment from the U.S. Pentagon just adds fuel to the fire -
exponentially.
best
allan
Sheriff Earle Brown, founder of the city where Daunte Wright was
murdered, was a longtime member of the KKK
<https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/sheriff-earle-brown-founder-of-the?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyOTExMzM1NywicG9zdF9pZCI6MzUxMDk3MDcsIl8iOiJWZkIvRiIsImlhdCI6MTYxODMzMDkwNiwiZXhwIjoxNjE4MzM0NTA2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjc3NjU3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.yJnZe8fgW5RQoaNn4CIBTGjmM7YS40GYgZBcQfiQJBk>
"This country has history. It has context. And if you simply scratch
and sniff the surface of almost any period of American history, you’re
bound to get a big whiff of racism and white supremacy. And that’s
exactly what we see in the town where police shot and killed 20 year
old Daunte Wright this past Sunday.
Until Sunday, I had never heard of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota before.
Like so many American towns, its founding was literally rooted in
white power on the farm of a Klansman named Earle Brown. Of course,
that fact alone could color how we see Brooklyn Center, but it’s so
much deeper than that. Earle Brown was not simply a racist farmer who
kept to himself, he was the Sheriff of all of Hennepin County - home
to Minneapolis. Under his watch, the KKK thrived in Hennepin County,
burning crosses and having hooded marches all over town" Shaun King -
The North Star
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