Blacks in US have endured ‘police terrorism’ for many decades: Analyst
A video showing New York City police officers violently arresting a young black man last week is the latest example of “police terrorism” in the US that has been perpetrated for decades against minorities, an African American journalist in Detroit says.
The video shows Fitzroy Gayle, 20, pleading for help as several New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers wrestle him into submission on a Brooklyn sidewalk.
The video shows Gayle asking a plainclothes police officer, who has cornered him, “What crime did I commit? What did I do? He saw me in the park and came out and followed me. Why are you following me?”
At least eight officers became involved in the incident before Gayle is taken away.
A passerby shot video of the exchange, which took place about 10 p.m. on March 4 outside a Canarsie playground, and posted it on Twitter the following day.
“The New York Police Department has such a notorious reputation in regard to its violence and even murderous policies towards African Americans,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
“This is just a continuation of what we’ve seen from the New York Police Department for many decades now,” Azikiwe said in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
“Others have labeled it as police terrorism for many decades now, and it is terrorism because you have police officers who act as the jury, the judge and the executioner before anyone can even go before a court of law,” he added.
“It’s a very bad situation particularly impacting African Americans [and] people of Latin American descent.”
Fatal police shootings and other forms of violence against African Americans by police have sparked massive protests across the US in recent years.
The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police in the United States has a corrosive impact on the mental health of black Americans, according to researchers.
Tallies kept by news organizations and researchers vary, but police have killed approximately 300 black Americans - about a quarter of them unarmed - each year since 2014.
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