In Texas, blacks are protesting police violence in a
particularly Southwestern way:
By invoking their right to open carry. On Wednesday, more
than 30 members of the newly-formed Huey P. Newton Gun
Club gathered to march through South Dallas with rifles, shotguns,
and AR-15s. The group eventually entered a restaurant with their
weapons while Dallas police officers were inside eating lunch.
“The recent murders of unarmed black, brown, and whites across
the United States of America has eradicated trust in the police,”
the gun club’s website
states.
Individuals across this nation have been stripped of due
process, subjected to state-sponsored police terrorism, and
continue to suffer the fate of being terminated
extra-judicially.In Dallas the police have murdered over 70 unarmed individuals,
most of the black and brown men, over the last ten years. Excluding
a recent incident where police testimony was contradicted by
surveillance footage, there have been no indictments since
1973.The people, who are gunned down and murdered by violent and
militarized police forces, have formed the Huey P. Newton Gun Club,
for the specifc purpose of self defense and community policing.
Note that the only Dallas cop indicted for killing an unarmed
civilian was a case with surveillance footage available. More and
more, we’re seeing why dashcam and body cameras for cops are so
crucial. Just yesterday, a 25-year-old man was
gunned down by police in St. Louis. The cops said
Kajieme Powell, who had just stolen two energy drinks from a
convenience store and was now pacing out front talking to himself,
was coming at them with a knife raised when they shot in
self-defense. A
cell-phone video released today shows otherwise. It shows two
St. Louis officers barely stopping their car before they open fire
on a man with his arms seemingly at his side.
“We demand the immediate end to police brutality, harassment,
and murder of the people,” says the Huey P. Newton Gun Club
website. “We assert the right of the people, particularly those of
color, to bear arms and protect themselves where local, state, and
the federal government have historically failed to do
so.”
The hashtag #BlackOpenCarry has
been lighting up Twitter tonight. Some photos, tweets, and
video:
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