Can It Be A Factor In All These Cop Killings?
By: Alexandria Addesso
Everyday mainstream media reports on some civilian, usually a Black person, being killed by a police officer. After the recent shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, it has not become unlikely to also hear a report of police being fatally targeted by fed up civilians. Many trying to make sense of the illogical use of deadly force against civilians by authority, and now retaliations against random cops, have been left scratching their heads. What is the deep-seeded cause of these acts of violence?
The utter brutality that has been taking place in the United States does not occur in other first world countries. Some claim that it is America’s deeply racist past built on slavery that is causing these problems. Yet, there are many countries in which slavery was in place for long periods of time that are not experiencing these acts of violence by authority figures and now even against them. While blatant individual incidents of racism as well as systematic racism cannot be overlooked, could there be another unique aspect adding to this perfect storm?
Since revolutionary times, America has had issues with authority. If there were no resistance to the English overlords the Boston Tea Party would have never occurred and the onslaught of the Revolutionary War would not have happened. Even the Civil War can be attributed to the South rebelling against the authoritative Northern Union and wanting the right to secede.
When speaking about a problem with authority in this country we cannot omit the problem with the abuse of power by those in positions of authority as well. It goes without saying that if more police officers were better trained, supervised, and less “trigger happy” many of the innocent lives lost at their hands would have not occurred.
Although all police officers cannot be painted with the same broad brush of brutality against civilians, most Americans can testify that they have personally experienced some sort of corruption by those in a position of authority. But is this corruption and abuse of authority a new phenomenon or part of American history? Wasn’t the American chattel slave system a grave abuse of authority? Aren’t false flag attacks another grave abuse of authority? As well as the continued ideological colonization of foreign countries, bleeding third world workers dry at very low wages, and disseminating those who live in others not also continued acts of authoritative abuse?
Come to your own conclusions, do your own research, form your own opinion.
But know that the evidence of authority being an ongoing problem in the
United States on both ends of the stick is apparent.
