US police colonizing African Americans: Pundit
Police forces in the United States are not comprised of just some nice guys, but they are an “arm of the government” to be used against the will of the colonized population, Omali Yeshitela, the chairman of the African People's Socialist Party said in an interview with Press TV.
“So, we have an occupying military force in our community that is there for the purpose of maintaining the colonial domination of black people by white power,” Yeshitela said on Friday referring to the police shootings of two African Americans at the hands of the police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
On Thursday, hundreds of people had gathered in downtown Dallas, Texas, to protest the killings a few days ago.
Following the protest, five officers were killed by snipers after at least 11 officers were targeted in downtown Dallas in one of the worst mass police shootings in US history.
The activist from Tampa added what happens in Dallas is not just a response to police brutality in the city, but the unrest derives from a long history of police killings of innocent African Americans in different parts of the country.
“There is an America that is comprised of colonizers of white people mostly who attacked Africa and dragged African people here against our will and who have been oppressing us since that time,” he noted.
Maxine Dovere, a journalist and political commentator from New York, told Press TV that the deaths of people as well as police officers are great tragedy. Dovere criticized the recent unrest in Dallas, saying, “This is not the way to foster better race relations and normalization and equalization of the way people in America treat one another.”
She also underlined that aside from the old relations between the whites and the blacks in the history, the American society has now a responsibility to work and live together.
The use of excessive force by police against African Americans in cities from Ferguson to Baltimore and New York has sparked nationwide protests in the past two years and has given birth to a movement called 'Black Lives Matter.'
Police in the US killed over 1,150 people in 2015, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 Americans, according to data compiled by an activist group that runs the Mapping Police Violence project.
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