Monday, September 21, 2020

Editorial, "‘KNEE ON THE NECK’ TO TAKING A KNEE," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 31 May 2020, Vol. 16, Part 1, No. 10 issue

 ‘KNEE ON THE NECK’ TO TAKING A KNEE

Well, now we see American ‘exceptionalism’ not only in its imperial hubris but in the cruel, inhumane practices of its police officers also, queerly trained by the Zionist terrorist state of Israel, to adopt all the genocidal repressive policies and tricks against their own people. The ‘knee on the neck’ perhaps deliberately pressed by the police officer Derek Chauvin on the felon-turned-a-caring-family-man (‘gentle giant’) George Floyd, an Afro-American for many minutes amidst cries and pleas of “I Can’t breathe” and wails of ‘Daddy, mamma,  they are going to kill me’ – is a common method used by the Zionist police. Chauvin appears to be a psycho but this could also be a calculated murder out of some personal hatred – searching investigation needed. President Trump responded seriously condemning this excess, as massive people’s protests broke out this time, but also brashly hit out at looting and killings by vandals/felons in that process in many cities and for that has earned, still earning, the ire of the masses. But, it is interesting to note that this tragedy occurred in a stronghold of Democrats and most of the violence, looting etc. during the massive protests which virtually set America ablaze have also occurred in the Dems’ ruled States and cities. So, a vicious ploy against Trump’s reelection, as also the hands of the Antifa radicals/Islamic terrorists behind all the violence, cannot also be ruled out. As a netizen Shannon Lucas wryly commented: “Since we are honoring George Floyd [albeit his past felonious record] for his memorial .... The biggest memory of him dying will be the rioters who brought hammers, axes, ball bats, and two by fours and how they were beating the life out of and stomping their heads in concrete of innocent people. When will the innocents who were killed by the criminal rioters be memorialized... What was done to George Floyd was wrong but guess what – people get done wrong every day; he’s not the only one that shouldn’t have lost his life....... We all get done wrong in our lives, time and time again. That don’t give you the right to damage property, to steal, to commit arson; nor does it give you the right to beat innocent people down and stomp them to death." Also, it is true that more numbers of innocent whites were shot dead in police excesses than blacks in recent years. And, the protests also seem to be genuine outbursts of various sections of the people against such police excesses, and we see even police in some places taking a knee in memory of Floyd. Overall, what is needed direly in the American situation is to frame and strictly implement relevant police reforms to curb all forms of police excesses against all persons – as ‘All lives matter’. §§§

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