The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove

The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove


Episode 256 – American Riots and Covid-19 Shutdowns

June 02, 2020

Intro
What’s Wrong with America by The Relatives live at The Bell House
George Floyd.
A summary
America is still lynching black men. Except now they use their knees and the people doing are police in broad daylight. Imagine what goes on behind closed doors.
Suspected of passing a forged $20 note,
was lynched, in broad daylight, in the open street of a major US city,
The murderer used his knee instead of a rope,
The killer was a white policeman Derek Chauvin
who was watched by 3 other policemen,
when all the policemen knew they were being filmed by civilian bystanders,
George told the police I can’t breathe and you are killing me and cried out for his mama,
was held down for 8 minutes 46 seconds,
was unresponsive for the last 2 minutes 43 seconds,
video shows that Chauvin did not remove his knee for a full minute after paramedics arrived at the scene.
Chauvin was not charged for 4 days while investigators waited for evidence
the criminal complaint said the autopsy revealed “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation”
But, the cause of death, according to the private autopsy, was mechanical asphyxia and the manner of death was homicide.
Shortly after the family’s autopsy findings were announced, the Hennepin County medical examiner released its own findings, also concluding that the manner of death was homicide. The county attributed the cause of death to “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
This was on the back of the Ahmaud Arbery case whose killers were not arrested for 74 days and only arrested after the video went viral
Riots have ensued
Images of unnecessary violence from police and the national guard. Tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings of people who were non-violently protesting.
Cop cars driving over protesters. At least in China with Tianenmen square the tank driver stopped for the man with the plastic bag.
After being forced to hide in a bunker in the White House, today he got police to use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protestors outside the White House so he could go outside the White House and hold a bible for a photo op at the nearby St. John Episcopal Church.
TV footage showed people running, falling and scrambling for safety as officers removed them by force. … Military vehicles rolled out on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The unprovoked action cleared the way for Trump to cross the street and visit St John’s church, … He held aloft a Bible and posed for cameras,
 
Last week you asked where I’d rather be arrested. China or the USA? I said it depends if I’m black. At least in China I would survive the arrest process and make it to the watchhouse alive!
 
Play clip, Waz referring to the China  (democracy, free speech, human rights and justice) and all those things the United States actually stands for …
 
American Riots
Why and How
Wide spread gun civilian ownership creates a shoot first mentality (Cops fear for their lives more than Aussie or British cops)
Police have been militarised with Ex-Military equipment.
Police are often poorly paid and poorly trained.
District Attorneys (in charge of prosecutions) are elected and need to show high conviction rates to get re-elected.
White people are scared of the police so they can imagine how black people feel.
From American Journal of Public Health
Results. Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018. Black men’s mortality risk is between 1.9 and 2.4 deaths per 100 000 per year, Latino risk is between 0.8 and 1.2,