Minneapolis cops slowly murder handcuffed man in front of crowd

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The history of America’s policing institutions contain an important, and often overlooked, quality that inclines it to racialized police brutality. The National Law Enforcement Museum has this to say about the slave patrols that played a critical role in the development of American (especially Southern) policing institutions,

According to historian Gary Potter, slave patrols served three main functions.

“(1) to chase down, apprehend, and return to their owners, runaway slaves; (2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; and, (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside the law.”

Having such origins without taking drastic steps to reform the institutions founded on or influenced by legally sanctioned harassment, violence, and murder of dehumanized people of color, is yielding the expected results. We have organized, state-sanctioned, and culturally normalized mass harassment, intimidation, surveillance, violence, and murder being perpetrated against one of our country’s historically most marginalized racial groups. That is what these protests, which have erupted into violence at times, are about. A violently racist police force with an institutional history of racialized slave hunting continuing to senselessly murder African American men (when they aren’t harassing or imprisoning them to work in for-profit prisons for humiliatingly little compensation as a form of constitutionally sanctioned slavery) and not have a government promptly responding to these appalling systematic civil rights violations, a culture and media that concerns itself with it only to virtue signal or gain political points, and a society that is more outraged about destroyed or stolen inanimate objects than yet another cold blooded public execution of an unarmed African American man. But, this is what our police have always done and will always do until dramatic changes are implemented.

Slave patrols were no less violent in their control of African Americans; they beat and terrorized as well. Their distinction was that they were legally compelled to do so by local authorities. In this sense, it was considered a civic duty—one that in some areas could result in a fine if avoided.

But, we can’t forget this either - the police are acting within the realm of what is deemed legally acceptable by our lawmakers. Otherwise, crimes like what these cops did would be promptly punished in all cases of police violence.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1266394964847521793

Yeah. And look where it has led us to.

Probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this site. 

You haven’t been here very long, have you?

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So, here’s why you should be pretty p*ssed at the “third degree murder” charge. It’s a charge that exists in the law books of just a few states - Minnesota being one of them. It has been increasingly used by Minnesota state courts as a way of charging drug dealers with murder in cases of fatal drug overdoses. Although they didn’t deliberately mean to kill a person and may even feel awful, they are nonetheless still able to be charged with murder. The article snippet below explains...

Jason Ramsdell wasn't breathing. His skin was blue when Morrison County emergency workers began trying to revive him on Feb. 12, 2010. But it was no use. The 28-year-old man was dead.

Inside his mouth deputies found a medicinal patch containing Fentanyl, a synthetic opiate similar to methadone or OxyContin that doctors prescribe to treat pain. Ramsdell didn't obtain the drug that killed him from a doctor.

Instead, he bought it from Patricia Taylor, who confessed to police that she sold Fentanyl patches to Ramsdell for $100 on the day he died. Prosecutors charged Taylor, 58, of Browerville, Minn., with third-degree murder. She pleaded guilty and is serving a 74-month sentence.

"I've been a prosecutor for just about 21 years and I had never seen, nor charged, or been a law clerk for a murder in the third degree, until I did the Taylor case," said Assistant Morrison County Attorney Todd Kosovich, who prosecuted the case.

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Kosovich said the tragic nature of the case of Ramsdell's death made him look for what he called a "new sword" when charging Taylor. He settled on third degree murder, which applies to cases that don't involve premeditation.

"It's not an intentional murder, and that's the biggest difference," Kosovich said. "Usually the defendants themselves are devastated that they've killed a friend."

The courts are saying that this police officer didn’t deliberately kill the African American man whose neck he deliberately knelt on for 10 minutes, even after he pleaded for his life because he couldn’t breathe. Despite that and his history of being actively involved in numerous other potentially racist or excessive use of force incidences, the courts still want to pretend like they are committed to justice while still providing a cover for fragile white racists and future police officers involved in such atrocities. Nothing has changed and his arrest and charge with “third degree murder” is meant to provide an illusion of justice to get people off the streets.

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