{"id":269800,"date":"2016-09-27T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/killer-cops-and-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:16:59","slug":"killer-cops-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/killer-cops-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Cops and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us. Give up your life for the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Jackson, <i>Blood In My Eye<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the entire world bears witness to two more never-ending snuff-black-people videos, this time by this nation-state\u2019s police forces in Tulsa, and yet another in Charlotte, NC, it is crystal clear that white America is not serious about reigning in its police forces, and has no intention whatever of \u201creforming\u201d in any substantive way its white supremacist-based \u201ccriminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as the cops\u2019 self-serving \u201cinvestigations\u201d always reveal, they and their enablers never fail to somehow find the vast, vast majority of \u00a0killer cops\u2019 actions against Black people to be not merely \u201cjustified,\u201d but very often praiseworthy.\u00a0 The justification process begins before the dead black body is even cold. \u00a0As in Ferguson, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Baltimore, and so many, many more places and spaces where blackness intersects the deadly white core of this nation-state, the conveniently dead black body is blamed forthwith for his or her own death \u2014 especially when any&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/09\/killer-cops-and-capitalism\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. Pass on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}