Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man in Memphis, Tennessee, was brutally crushed by Memphis police. Pulled over two minutes away from his home on January 7, he was crushed so severely that he succumbed to his accidents three days later.
Every week prematurely of the bodycam footage being launched by Memphis police, the 5 officers accountable for the killing have been fired, and their names and images have been launched to the general public. The day earlier than the footage was launched, all officers have been charged with the second-degree homicide of Tyre.
This response from the state was uncharacteristic in comparison with the usual response to a police homicide. The 5 officers fired and charged are all Black, and weren’t afforded the identical authorized impunity that white officers who homicide Black individuals have been given. There are numerous examples of police departments, so-called police “unions” and courts bending over backwards to guard white cops for racist lynchings.
The truth that the 5 officers who killed Tyre Nichols are Black doesn’t make this crime any much less brutal, or any much less of a difficulty of racism. The Memphis Police Division, like each police division throughout the U.S. is an establishment of white supremacist violence and capitalist class rule. Whether or not the perpetrators of this violence have been Black or white officers, the result’s that yet one more Black particular person is slain, and white supremacy is maintained.
We should not see racism merely as a manifestation of private prejudices and hate by white individuals in direction of Black individuals, however relatively racism is a system of structural oppression – larger than any set of people concerned. We should perceive that racism is inseparable from the capitalist socio-economic system. Merely requiring sensitivity coaching for police or hiring extra Black cops is not going to finish the violence, as is clear by this killing of Tyre Nichols.
Combating racism should go hand-in-hand with preventing the capitalist system that perpetuates it. The racist violence of the capitalist system permeates our society from police violence in our native communities, to the for-profit mass-incarceration system, to the genocidal navy industrial complicated. Employees World Get together is in solidarity with all these within the streets preventing towards white supremacy, police terror, and state violence.
Justice for Tyre Nichols! Abolish the police! Smash white supremacy!
