Damascus-Sana
Despite the many promises made to the Americans' ears to work at the highest levels to stop the systematic violence practiced by the police against the descendants of African and Hispanics, the killing of innocent people because of the color of their skin continues in the United States, so the scenario of killing George Floyd by a police officer is repeated over and over The only one is the victim's name.
The victim of racism this time is (Dawn Wright), the twenty-year-old, who was killed by an American policewoman in Minneapolis for a traffic offense. 9 minutes last May.
The name of the victim may be different, but the events of the killing repeat themselves without any difference. In the killing of Wright, who was stopped at a traffic light, policewoman Kim Potter hastened, according to media outlets and videos, to place a pistol at him and fire a single bullet that would have killed him, only to discover later that what she pulled was a weapon. It is not an electric shock device.
The recklessness of the US police and the method of systematic violence that it followed when dealing with and arresting African descendants and their arrest for no reason was enough to renew the protests in Minneapolis, the largest extent of the state of Minnesota, where hundreds took to the streets demanding justice for (Wright) and gathered outside the police station in the Brooklyn Center to confront them counter forces Riot with bullets, tear gas and sound bombs.
The protests were renewed last night despite the Minneapolis authorities imposing a curfew and interrupted the arrest of 40 demonstrators under various pretexts ranging from breaching the ban to rioting, and at a time when the reverberations of the new crime against an African American at the hands of the police interacted, the lawyer for the victim's family (Wright) described the incident as "inhuman." "As Minneapolis and the rest of America are trying to deal with the tragic murder of George Floyd, we must now mourn the loss of this young man," he said.
Violent crimes and racist scandals in the United States, especially by its police, are repeated frequently, despite the many promises made by politicians, including US President Joe Biden, to put an end to them. The murder of Wright, Floyd, or many other people of African descent is not an isolated or lonely incident. In the context of a certain pattern that the US police follow when dealing with brown-skinned people.
The repetition of such a pattern of racist crimes par excellence has not stopped despite calls for restructuring the entire police apparatus. The concept of racial hostility is deeply rooted in American society, regardless of the awareness of many Americans of this fact, but the racial reality exists and remains and only the names of the victims differ in it.
Basima Kanon
