Police brutality against black people gives US sense of power: Analyst
An American human rights activist says exploiting and brutalizing African Americans gives the United States law enforcement a sense of power and importance.
“Brutality of America towards African Americans through the police is intensifying as capitalism in this country collapses,” Dr. Randy Short told Press TV on Thursday.
“As other countries [are] rejecting America, the one thing that Anglo Americans have, the dominate whites have had, is the ability to exploit, kill, and brutalize African Americans, which gives them a sense of importance and power, and this is why you are seeing more of it,” the human rights activist said.
“The Anglo-American empire has had a primary victim over the last 300 years—and in roughly the 240 years the United States has existed--and that has been African Americans.”
He made the remarks when asked about a white police officer who violently dragged a female black student out of her classroom in South Carolina on Monday.
The incident, recorded on cell phones of students, provoked public outrage and prompted the authorities to fire the officer.
Dr. Short asserted that “killing, shooting, jailing, beating and raping” of black people is as normal as “breathing” in the United States.
“America is exceptional; when they [US police] shoot blacks on camera, it’s not killing. When they beat and attack a child in school, it’s not brutality. When they segregate or do ethnic cleansing, it’s exceptional because it’s America.”
In the latest case of brutality against African Americans, US police officers shot and critically wounded a black teenager near Ferguson on Wednesday afternoon.
Although the police insisted that the victim, who was identified as Amonderez Green, suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, witnesses said they saw one of the officers shot the teenage boy in the face.
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