Is there more police murder happening right now, or is it just hitting the spotlight more often? I remember when the Rodney King incident happened in 1992, and all of those los angeles pigs were caught on film beating the shit out of him. Black people were saying, "Finally, now maybe you'll believe us!" to the rest of society, most of whom still want to think that the pigs are actually there to " help" them ,and not to uphold the status quo at any fucking cost. For those of us who have been long time Revolutionary Worker/Revolution readers, and who know people who have been on the painful end of a cop nighstick, none of this is a shock. And the shit goes on.....
Baltimore –
Another Black Man's Life Stolen by the Police!
Statement by Carl Dix
April 22, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Freddie Gray
Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, is dead after being taken into custody by Baltimore City cops. Freddie was chased and arrested on April 12. Why? We don’t know because police haven’t yet made public why they arrested him. All we know is that Freddie ran when the cops swaggered into the neighborhood like an occupying army. A video made by a witness to his arrest shows him being dragged to the police van screaming like he was in excruciating pain and seemingly unable to walk. 40 minutes later, the police call an ambulance to the precinct Freddie was taken to, and at the hospital doctors find his spinal cord had been broken. Freddie died a week later. The city has exploded in protest, with 2000 people in the streets on April 21 demanding Justice For Freddie.
Baltimore City officials are saying, “People should wait for the results of our thorough investigation.” Apologists for the cops ask, ‘Why did he run in the first place?” I don’t want to hear any of that crap. Freddie is another Black man whose life was stolen by the police. This is a horror that has been going on for decades and is intensifying today. It is a concentration of the slow genocide being enforced on Black and Latino people by this capitalist/imperialist system. It will take revolution, nothing less, to end this, and all the other horrors this system forces humanity to endure. And everybody who refuses to stand by while the color of someone’s skin determines how they live and whether they live needs to join those in the streets of Baltimore and everywhere else saying that “Police Getting Away With Murder Must STOP!”
April 21: Thousands march in front of the Baltimore Western District police station to seek justice for Freddie Gray, who died after being taken into police custody. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
