An Epidemic of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder

[polly7]

Artists Against Police Brutality
by Kim Petersen / October 27th, 2015

Excerpts:

U.S. citizen Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, has applied for refugee status in Canada citing fear of being killed by police.1

In his hearing with Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board on October 23 in Vancouver Canty said, “I’m in fear of my life because I’m black.”

Canty maintained, “This is a well-founded fear.”

Does Canty believe that police in Canada are “racially” color blind or just that it can’t be any worse than in the US?2

Canty’s “well-founded fear” — a fear corroborated by the emergence of Black Lives Matter3 — is the subject of a soon-to-be-released comic book anthology – APB: Artists Against Police Brutality (Rosarium Publishing, 2015) – edited by Bill Campbell, Jason Rodriguez, and John Jennings. (All proceeds go to the Innocence Project.)

APB features comics and short stories by many artists. What comes through viscerally in APB is the fear evoked by police, and it is so much more than fear. It is people targeted because of their skin color or other difference. It is the humiliation of being made a public spectacle on the flimsiest, frequently fallacious, grounds. It is beatings. It is murder that for all intents and purposes is state sanctioned.

The comic “For My Future Child” depicts the humanity of a Black family and how police can strip that humanity away. In “Scared Straight,” an officer finds out what it is like to be on the other end of fear from police violence. Those who dehumanize others wind up dehumanizing themselves.

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/10/an-epidemic-of-police-racism-brutality-and-murder/

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. When a murderous anarchy thrives in police and judiciary, it's hardly far from

family-picnic outings to watch the public lynchins that would have disgraced medieval barbarians. You've a very sick country on your hands, folks, even by modern, Western standards.

[marmar]

2. K/R