More Than Half of Police Killings Uncounted Since 1980, Black Superintendent Writes Black Lives Matter: Whitelash Ensues, Cops 'Hunting' George Floyd Protesters, Trumpers Prep for Civil War, And More!
Some Sunday reading ...
New Study Shows More Than Half of Police Killings Have Gone Uncounted Since 1980
By Mike Ludwig
New research appears to confirm what Black Lives Matter activists and abolitionist organizers have said for years: There is a crisis of police-perpetrated killings in the United States that has gone underreported for decades, and people of color (and Black people especially) are most at risk.
Deadly police violence has long been a major public health crisis, but an estimated 17,000 deaths from police violence were misclassified in federal public health data over the past four decades, according to a new study published by a team of researchers in The Lancet, a leading medical journal. The study found that Black people are 3.5 times more like to be killed by police than white people, and Latinx and Indigenous people are also killed at disproportionate rates.
Continue Reading: https://truthout.org/articles/new-study-shows-more-than-half-of-police-killings-have-gone-uncounted-since-1980/
Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’
Andrea Kane on her last day as superintendent of schools in Queen Anne’s County, Md.Credit...Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times
A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.
Continue Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html
Body camera footage reveals Minneapolis police officers talking about 'hunting' civilians during May 2020 protests, 'f**k these people'
In one video that is timestamped around 1 a.m., on May 31, 2020, then (he has since retired) Minneapolis Police Commander Bruce Folkens is heard telling an officer during a debrief, "Tonight it was just nice to hear, 'we're going to go find some more people, instead of chasing people around.'" He continued, "you guys are out hunting people now, and it's just a nice change of tempo."
The officer agreed, to which Folkens responded, "f**k these people."
Around 10:40 p.m. on May 30, Minneapolis police Sgt. Andrew Bittell is heard saying, "We're rolling down Lake St. The first f**kers we see, we're just handling them with 40's," apparently referring to 40 mm nonlethal rounds which certain Minneapolis police officers use to control crowds or during civil disobedience.
Continue Reading: https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/national/575474602.html?ref=602
Trumpers Prep for Civil War
Here are two articles addressing this terrifying, and not unlikely prospect. The January 6 insurrection was likely the first battle.
The Conservatives Dreading—And Preparing for—Civil War
By Emma Green
A faction of the right believes America has been riven into two countries. The Claremont Institute is building the intellectual architecture for whatever comes next.
Continue Reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/claremont-ryan-williams-trump/620252/
Trump Supporters at Iowa Rally See 'Civil War Coming,' Say He Will 'Save the World'
By Fatma Khaled
"They're establishment. They don't care about the American people because they're in their elite little tower," said Trump rally attendee Lori Levi. "So we're just sick of it, you know, and we're not going to take it anymore. I see a civil war coming. I do. I see civil war coming."
Continue Reading: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporters-iowa-rally-see-civil-war-coming-say-he-will-save-world-1637352
Let’s end on a positive note!
Hillbilly Nationalists & Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition
By Eric Kerl
In 1960s Chicago, organizations of poor white people rejected racism and threw in their lot with the Black Panthers and Young Lords to fight for collective liberation. Their story is rich with lessons for today.
Continue Reading: https://rampantmag.com/2021/09/hillbilly-nationalists-chicagos-rainbow-coalition/
Thanks for reading! I look forward to your feedback and suggestions. And most importantly, keep organizing!