File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1996/96-11-15.074, message 66


Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:40:07 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: Police Brutality 


Detcom wrote, 13.11:

>A grand jury in St.Petersburg Florida ruled today that 
>a stinking cop named James Knight was justified in the
>shooting three weeks ago of a 18 year old man, Tyron
>Lewis.  
.............

>Tonight the skies of St. Petersburg are aglow from the flames
>expressing the anger of the oppressed community, as they were
>3 weeks ago.  One pig has been shot and the coverage on the
>11 o'clock news right now looked like an out-and-out war in
>the streets as people hurled rocks and bottles and shot at
>the occupying police force in their midst.  

Things obviously are pretty different in this respect from
what they are here in Sweden, much rougher.
.............

>Police Brutality is a major concern in the oppressed communities
>in the US and activists of whatever stripes oughta be organizing around 
>this issue right now.  It's a big problem that is not going away
>anytime soon and seems to be getting worse.  There are people 
>looking for leadership right now.

Undoubtedly. You're quite right in advocating unity of actvists
on this. Once again the absence - everywhere - of Marxist-
Leninist parties is making itself felt. Individual activists
and small groups *should* of course try to fill the vacuum as 
much as they possibly can.

Rolf M.



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