"The officer said he was being 'dragged' when DuBose started to drive away. The video of the incident showed that the officer was not dragged, or Walter Scott who was pulled over in his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and then shot five times in the back as he fled by Officer Michael Slager.
And there are others. Too many others."
"Whether in the case of George Floyd, who was murdered not far from where Ms. Good was killed, or Philando Castile, who was also killed in the Twin Cities while sitting in his car with his fiancée’ and her four-year-old daughter, or Samuel DuBose, who was killed in his car in Cincinnati after being approached by an officer and then shot at point blank range as he attempted to drive away."
"The officer said he was being 'dragged' when DuBose started to drive away. The video of the incident showed that the officer was not dragged, or Walter Scott who was pulled over in his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and then shot five times in the back as he fled by Officer Michael Slager.
And there are others. Too many others."
"But the tactics used against Black communities can be transferred to other communities, often with slight modifications."
"ICE doesn’t enforce borders. It enforces whiteness."
~ Julie Roginsky
#ICE #ReneeGood #race #gender #WhiteSupremacy #fascism
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/ice-calls-on-white-nationalists-to
As Brian Bennett noted over ten years ago, a report by law enforcement experts found that "Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths."
#ICE #ReneeGood #race #gender #WhiteSupremacy #fascism
/6
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html
As Brian Bennett noted over ten years ago, a report by law enforcement experts found that "Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths."
#ICE #ReneeGood #race #gender #WhiteSupremacy #fascism
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https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html
