This routine finding of police " innocence " in these controversial
brutality cases is easily explained by the socialist sociological
concept of " class conflict ". The capitalist ruling class and their
vast " private property " must be protected - often with contempt for
human rights. " Law and Order " is also threatened by labor unrest, by
strikes, even by state worker unions.
The ruling class does not want to demoralize the police force by serious prosecution of even the more outrageous cases of police " over-reaction ".
There are thousands of less dramatic cases of police misbehavior where they just " rough up " some " disorderly " citizens. If hospital emergency room walls could speak ( nowadays they probably do ).
It is not all about race. The reporting makes it look like that. How many affluent Afro Americans feel victimized by the police ?
But numerous references to the " black community " suggest a still segregated America . The basis for it is not institutionalized racism - but the black hole of economic inequality.
Our prison system - our American Gulag - screams out at class injustice.
The ruling class does not want to demoralize the police force by serious prosecution of even the more outrageous cases of police " over-reaction ".
There are thousands of less dramatic cases of police misbehavior where they just " rough up " some " disorderly " citizens. If hospital emergency room walls could speak ( nowadays they probably do ).
It is not all about race. The reporting makes it look like that. How many affluent Afro Americans feel victimized by the police ?
But numerous references to the " black community " suggest a still segregated America . The basis for it is not institutionalized racism - but the black hole of economic inequality.
Our prison system - our American Gulag - screams out at class injustice.
[ Most Senior Police Officer In Freddie Gray Case Is Found Not Guilty Of Manslaughter
Lt.
Brian Rice is the highest-ranking of the six Baltimore police officers
who were charged in the death of Freddie Gray last year. ]
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