THERE HAVE BEEN RIOTS IN FRANCE IN RESPONSE TO POLICE
BRUTALITY INVOLVING A YOUNG MAN WHO IS ONLY 22 YEARS OLD.
VIDEO SHOWS COPS NOT ONLY ROUGHING HIM UP BUT
ALLEGEDLY SODOMIZING HIM WITH THE BATON.
ACCORDING TO CBS NEWS, YOUNG BLACK MAN WAS ALLEGEDLY
SODOMIZED WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS BATON LAST WEEK
DURING AN IDENTITY CHECK.
WHEN OFFICER WAS CHARGED SUNDAY WITH AGGRAVATED RAPE AND
THREE OTHERS WERE CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.
THERE OF COURSE IS A LOT MORE TO THIS STORY THAN WHAT SEEMS LIKE
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH AS WITH THE UNITED
STATES, THERE IS HEAVY POLICING OF WORKING-CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS
THROUGHOUT FRANCE AND SO THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE USUALLY
IMMIGRANTS AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY TARGETED AND
HARASSED AND SO THIS ONE SITUATION IS NOT ISOLATED.
IT SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING OR AT LEAST THE MISTREATMENT OF
PEOPLE SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHICH
IS WHAT LED TO THE RIGHT START THIS WAS LIKE THE STRAW
THAT BROKE THE CAMELS BACK.
SURVEYS HAVE FOUND THAT UNEMPLOYMENT IS AS HIGH AS 30%
IN THESE IMMIGRANTS NEIGHBORHOODS THIS INITIALLY
HAPPENED IN NORTHEASTERN, I'M SORRY, IN A TOWN NORTHEAST
FROM PARIS.
HOWEVER, THESE RIGHTS HAVE ACTUALLY EXTENDED TO FIVE
DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN FRANCE AND PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY
OUTRAGED ABOUT IT.
LOOK, I THINK THAT RIOTING IS NOT THE BEST RESPONSE
BECAUSE EVERYONE WILL FOCUS ON THE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND THE
VIOLENCE AS OPPOSED TO THE MESSAGE.
I KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT AMONG
AMERICANS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WRITING MAKES SENSE BUT
WHEN YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH WRITING HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES, AS SOON AS WRITER SHOWS A PEACEFUL PROTEST, THE
CONVERSATION IS NOT ABOUT WHAT THE PROTESTERS ARE TRYING
TO GET OUT THERE, IT'S ABOUT THE WRITERS DID.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS PROPERTY DAMAGE, IT CREATES BUZZ, THIS
IS WHAT THE MEDIA LOVES TO COVER AND IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT YOU
WANT REAL CHANGE, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT IN A PEACEFUL WAY.
BUT STILL, I ALSO THINK THAT SOMETIMES, IT'S ALWAYS
CALLED RIOTING WHEN IT'S PEOPLE OF COLOR WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE
OF COLOR BUT DID THEY CALLED THE BOSTON TEA PARTY A RIOT?
I DON'T AGREE WITH VIOLENCE.
A CALLED IT A PARTY.
I DON'T AGREE WITH GOING ON BEING DISRUPTIVE AND I
DON'T AGREE WITH GOING ON BURNING STUFF DOWN BUT I DO
UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE THE
BENEFIT OF AN EDUCATION, THEY LIVE IN THESE POOR
NEIGHBORHOODS, THEY DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES AND SOMETIMES
ACTING OUT THIS WAY IS ALL THAT THEY KNOW HOW TO DO.
WHEN I LOOKED AT THOSE IMAGES, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT
WERE PROTESTING, THEY WERE HOLDING UP SIGNS AND THEY
LOOK LIKE THEY WERE PEACEFUL.
THE WRITERS SHOW UP AND NOW IT BECOMES A RIOT BUT YOU
KNOW, THEY TRY TO DO IS SO MUCH WITH THE MARCH, THE WOMEN'S
MARCH, AND NOBODY GAVE THEM ANY OF THE AMMUNITION AND THEY
COULDN'T DO IT.
I LOVE THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT I THINK THE WOMEN'S MARK
WAS AN EXAMPLE OF AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL PROTEST THAT
HAPPENED IN MAJOR CITIES ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND IT IS
BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING ON US.
THEY WANTED SO BADLY FOR VIOLENCE TO BREAK OUT AND
IT DIDN'T.
WAS VERY PEACEFUL, IT RUBBED DONALD TRUMP THE WRONG WAY.
HE TRIED TO BRUSH OFF BUT IT DEFINITELY GOT UNDER HIS SKIN.
THAT IS A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST.
I GET IT.
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU ARE NOT BEING HEARD, YOU'RE ANGRY AND YOU WANT TO LASH OUT.
SOMETIMES THAT RESULTS IN A VIOLENT REACTION.
SOMETIMES IT RESULTS IN YOU SAYING THINGS MAYBE YOU
SHOULDN'T SAY.
NONETHELESS, WE HAVE TO FIGHT INJUSTICE IN A WAY THAT IS
EFFECTIVE AND RIOTING IS NOT EFFECTIVE.
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, I THINK, I GREW UP IN A COMMUNITY THAT
WRITING WAS VERY PREVALENT DIAGRAM AND MIAMI, BUT I
THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THOSE OF US WHO CALL OURSELVES
ACTIVISTS TO GO INTO THOSE COMMUNITIES AND MOBILIZES
PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT WAY.
AS ANYONE WOULD SAY, THERE IS NO GREATER OPPONENT THAN A MAN
WHO FEELS LIKE HE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE.
WHEN YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY BEING
OPPRESSED AND DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY OR RESOURCES AND THEY
FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE, SOMETIMES THESE ARE
JUST SUICIDAL TACTICS.
THERE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT?
I AM NOT GOING TO SURVIVE IN THIS, THEY ARE STICKING
BATONS OF BAHRAIN'S IS.
THEY ARE RAPING US.
WHAT ELSE DO WE DO TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION BECAUSE NOBODY
CARES ABOUT US AND I AM NOT CONDONING VIOLENCE NOR WRITING
BUT I AM SAYING THAT WE HAVE TO GET TO THE ROOT OF ISSUES AND
WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR COMES FROM.
I AGREE WITH LINDSAY BOTH MADE AND I ALSO TO SCREW THE COUPLE.
I WAS SO UPSET WHEN I WATCH THE COVERAGE BACK OF THE
BERKELEY PROTESTS.
RIGHT-WINGERS SENDING IN PROTESTERS TO START PROBLEMS SO
THEY WOULD END UP LOOKING LIKE THE PROTESTED MEAN ANYTHING AND
THAT IS WHAT GOT UNDER MY SKIN BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING TO
TARNISH AND DISREGARD THE POWER OF PEACEFUL PROTEST WILL JUST
LOOK IN ZONE AND ON THE SMALL ACTORS, THE BAD ACTORS AND AT
TIMES I AM AWARE, I HAVE WITNESSED PEOPLE A PROCESSOR
WERE TRYING TO CAUSE PROBLEMS I WAS AT THE ONE LAX AND I'D A FEW
HARSH WORDS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE GETTING IN THE FACE OF TRUMP
FANS THAT WERE THERE AND I WAS LIKE YOU ARE JUST PLAYING
INTO THE NARRATIVE.
YOU ARE GIVING IN THE AMMUNITION.
I HATED SEEING THAT.
IF YOU ARE A TRUE PROGRESSIVE AND YOU ARE NOT PACED OFF
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN BERKELEY WITH THE ONES WHO WERE
THERE TO CAUSE PROBLEMS THEN I DON'T THINK YOU ARE GETTING
THE FULL PICTURE AS TO WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROCESS IS.
IT'S TO GO FORWARD AND SEND THE MESSAGE PEACEFULLY AND THAT
GOODS UNDER THEIR SKIN.
THE WOMEN'S MARCH WAS SO SUCCESSFUL AND EPISTEMOLOGY EVEN
MORE THAN ANY SORT OF VIOLENCE THAT COULD'VE BEEN DONE.
IN THIS EXAMPLE IN FRANCE, I HAVE LOOKED INTO THIS
BEFORE SPECIFICALLY WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL BECAUSE IT IS NOT
A ONE-OFF OCCURRENCE.
THE REASON WHY PEOPLE WILL PANIC IN THIS EXAMPLE IS BECAUSE
BACK IN 2005,
THERE WAS A DEATH OF TWO TEENS AND IT CAUSED MASSIVE PROTEST.
THERE WERE PROPERTY BURNING CARS BURN, IT WAS A BIG PROTEST.
THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME CALLED LISTING OF EMERGENCY
BECAUSE OF THE PROTEST.
LAST YEAR, THERE WAS A 24-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS DEAD IN
POLICE CUSTODY AND ANOTHER PROCESSES ON AND OFF.
IT'S A COMPLICATED ISSUE IN FRANCE DIVE INTO PARIS
AMENITIES ISSUES.
I TRAVELED ON THE GUARDIAN REPORTER WHO IS INTERESTED
IN SHOWING ME THIS.
WE KNOW WELL AND TRULY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOOK AT
SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ON ONE GROUP OR RACE INTO ONE AREA.
IT IS A TACTIC.
IT IS TO TRY AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY
BECOME ANCHORED DOWN IN THE AREA SO THEY MAY STRUGGLE AND
IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT THERE IS UNEMPLOYMENT I GET IT THAT THEY
GET FRUSTRATED THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS SO DISGUSTING.
THE DETAILS, THE EMBARRASSMENT.
THIS MAN WAS A YOUTH WORKER.
HE WAS TRYING TO GIVE BACK TYPE BREAKS ME MY HEART TRYING
TO LOOK INTO THE DETAILS OF THE CASE.
THEY PHYSICALLY ABUSED HIM SO BADLY THAT HE ENDED UP IN A
HOSPITAL.
STILL IS.
THE PRESIDENT, FRANCE'S PRESIDENT WHEN VISITED HIM.
YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS NOT THE RIGHT KIND OF TREE MAN
YOU'RE ALSO RIGHT THAT FRANCE HAS A HISTORY OF HAVING
THESE TYPES OF PROTESTS WHEN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS COME UP.
IT IS NEVER BECAUSE OF THAT ONE ISSUE, IT IS ALWAYS BECAUSE
OF WHAT THEY'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING.
IS A REMINDER.
I HATE TO TIE BACK TO AMERICAN POLITICS, BUT IT DOES.
IT COMES BACK INTO IT BECAUSE THERE IS A RISE IN RIGHT WING
NATIONALISM IN FRANCE RIGHT NOW.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF TERRORIST ATTACKS HAPPENING IN FRANCE
AND THAT HAS GIVEN WAY FOR RIGHT-WING NATIONALISTS TO
MOVE FORWARD IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM.
THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THEM GAINING MORE FOLLOWING
A THINGS LIKE THIS WILL PLAY INTO THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF
THE TIME, PEOPLE VIEW POLICE AS A REPRESENTATION OF THE
NATIONALISTIC POINT OF VIEW AS WE SEE HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
HAVE TO SAY THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE LEFT ARE CONDEMNING
POLICE IN MASS AND I HATED SEEING THAT BECAUSE I FEEL THAT
WAS WHAT WAS GOING ON THE RIGHT THAT THEY WERE CONDEMNING
AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS IN MASS AND THAT WAS CAUSING A
PROBLEM THAT BAD ACTORS DON'T REPRESENT THE MASS.
I DISAGREE.
I DON'T THINK THAT LIBERALS WERE TRYING TO PAINT A BLEAK
PICTURE OF ALL POLICE OFFICIALS.
I THINK WHAT THEY DID WANT TO DO AND WE WERE CLEAR ABOUT
THIS IN EVERY SINGLE STORY THAT WE DID WAS OF COURSE THERE
ARE GOOD COPS OUT THERE, BUT THE BAD APPLES COME ABOUT AND
THEY GET PROTECTED.
THEY GET PROTECTED BY EVERYONE.
IF YOU GENUINELY CARE ABOUT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
INJUSTICE AND YOU ARE A POLICE OFFICIAL, YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OUT.
THERE WERE POLICE OFFICIALS WHO DID SPEAK OUT.
THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD COPS.
I THINK THAT NARRATIVE, AND I AM NOT SAYING THIS TO INSULT
YOU OR PUT YOU DOWN, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE THIS MISTAKE.
IT IS AN AREA THAT HAS BEEN PUT OUT THERE AS PROPAGANDA BY
THE RIGHT WING AND SOME PEOPLE LATCH ONTO IT.
IT IS NOT TRUE.
LIBERALS DON'T THINK THAT ALL COPS ARE BAD, LIBERALS
SUPPORT COPS.
OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY GOES TOWARD COPS THAT WOULD WANT TO
PRIVATIZE THEM, WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE WHEN A 12-YEAR-OLD THE SHOT WITHIN TWO SECONDS
AS HE IS PLAYING WITH A TOY GUN IN A PARK.
I AGREE WITH THAT POINT THAT I THINK THIS MAY BE
CONFUSING AS THE SAME SORT OF WOULD'VE ROLES THAT YOU ARE
LOOKING TO REFERENCE AND THE ONE TO ACT AS LIBERALS AND ARE
NOT AS PROGRESSIVE AND THEY LOOK TO JUSTIFY A POLICE
SHOOTINGS AS ALL COPS ARE LIKE THIS.
THEY DON'T HAVE A CONVERSATION TO TRY AND BRIDGE THE GAP
ON BOTH SIDES.
FOR INSTANCE, I WENT TO THE CLINIC NOT LONG AGO WHICH
ACCORDING WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT A SEMINAR THAT WAS PUT
ON IN A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK COMMUNITY TO TRY AND TEACH
KIDS HOW TO INTERACT WITH POLICE OFFICERS FROM AN EARLY AGE.
MANY PEOPLE THAT I TALKED ABOUT THIS IMMEDIATELY WERE ON
THE DEFENSIVE.
NO, BLACK IT SHOULD NOT BE TAUGHT TO ACTIVELY THE
WHITE KIDS.
AND I WAS THINKING THAT'S A VALID POINT OUT THIS IS A
HORRIBLE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
WE SHOULD BE TEACHING THESE KIDS BUT SAFETY AND LIFE IS
PRESERVED IS A PRIORITY THAT I UPHOLD.
I WAS PUSHING THAT METHOD MESSAGE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE
WERE RESORTING WITH HATEFUL RHETORIC BECAUSE NO CONCERT
SHOULD THEM ANYWAY.
I DO BELIEVE THAT, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THAT I THINK
THERE'S SO MANY OFFICERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT ARE
UNDERTRAINED.
A LOT OF THEM HAVE RACIAL POINT OF VIEWS THAT LITERALLY USE
THEIR BEST TO PUSH FORWARD.
I HAVE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS IN MY POINT OF VIEW BY CONDEMNING A
LOT OF PEOPLE EN MASS BASED ON THE ACTIONS OF A FEW.
I FEEL LIKE ITíS PART OF THE REASON THAT WE GOT WHO WE
GOT IN THE PRESIDENCY AND I FEEL LIKE IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO
NORMALIZE IT BUT I FEEL LIKE IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A
CONVERSATION AND SEE WERE BOTH SIDES BECAUSE DIVISIVENESS
IS PROMINENT.
IF YOU SAY YOU ARE FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER, IT MEANS YOU ARE UP
AGAINST POLICE.
I WAS JUST TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO FIND A MIDDLE GROUND THAT
THE INTERESTING THING IS YOU JUST BROUGHT UP BLACK LIVES
MATTER AND IF YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON A GROUP THAT HAS A
GENERALIZED CONCLUSION ABOUT A MOVEMENT BASED ON THE
ACTIONS OF A FEW PEOPLE, THAT IS THE RIGHT WING IN RESPONSE
TO BLACK LIVES MATTER.
THERE WAS ONE INSTANCE WHERE A FEW PEOPLE SAID FRIED THEM
LIKE BACON IN REGARD TO COPS AND THAT IS IT.
THAT DEFINES THE ENTIRE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT.
IT IS PROJECTION.
WHEN THEY CLAIM LIBERALS DISLIKE ALL
COPS AND WE HATE ALL COPS, IT IS BECAUSE THAT IS THE KIND OF
THOUGHT PROCESS THAT THEY HAVE.
THEY MAKE GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE
BASED ON THE ACTIONS OF A FEW AND WE HAVE NOT ONLY SEEN THAT
WITH PROTESTERS IN THE COUNTRY, WE SEE NOW WITH MUSLIMS AND
VARIOUS GROUPS THAT THEY JUST DON'T AGREE WITH POLITICALLY.
WITH REGARD TO THE POLICE OFFICERS, I THINK THAT THERE IS
A CERTAIN LEVEL OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT COPS NEED TO
BE HELD AND IF YOU ARE IN THE PRESIDENTS OF AN INJUSTICE IN
YOUR QUIET ABOUT IT THEN YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THAT AND I
DON'T THINK, THE THING THAT MAKES ME UPSET IS WHEN I TALK TO
PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSERVATIVES AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES
REPUBLICANS, THEY ALWAYS ASSUME THAT I'M A DEMOCRAT BECAUSE
I'M A WOMAN OF COLOR.
YOU HEAR THEM TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT AT ABOUT
INJUSTICES AND ABOUT POLITICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES WHO DON'T HAVE
A CERTAIN LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND HAVE NOT EVOLVED TO A
CERTAIN PLACE.
THEY ONLY FEEL LIKE, I AM FROM THE GHETTO SO WHEN THEY
THINK ABOUT OPPRESSION, THE FACE OF OPPRESSION LOOKS LIKE
YOU SO AUTOMATICALLY THEY MAKE THIS ASSUMPTION THAT
EVERYBODY WHO LOOKS LIKE YOU IS TRYING TO GET THEM.
I AM NOT SAYING EVERYBODY, I JUST SAYING THIS GENERALIZATIONS
ARE DIFFERENT AND DANGEROUS AND THAT IS WITH THE RIGHT DOES.
I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY WHO THINKS THAT ALL POLICE OFFICERS
ARE BAD BECAUSE MOST OF US WHO ARE NOT RICH USUALLY HAVE
COPS THAT ARE IN OUR CIRCLE BECAUSE IT IS A BLUE-COLLAR
JOB AND MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE COPS ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE.
THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE IN COMMUNITIES THAT THEY
ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH AND THEY ARE AFRAID AND THEY'RE
TRYING TO SURVIVE.
THAT IS THE REAL ISSUE.
BUT WE KEEP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SIT AROUND AND
WATCH OTHER PEOPLE ABUSE OTHER PEOPLE AND NOT SAY ANYTHING
AND THAT IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SIT AND
WATCH SOMEBODY GET MISTREATED IF YOU HAVE THE POWER TO HELP.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO AND THAT IS AN ISSUE OF HUMANITY.
WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE SAYING THE STATEMENTS ABOUT POLICE
OFFICERS, THEY ARE JUST CALLING UPON THOSE THAT ARE SILENT,
CALLING UPON THEIR HUMANITY AND SAYING IF YOU ARE WATCHING
IT, WE NEED YOU TO SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE
US AND THAT IS WHERE THE REAL ISSUE IS I THINK AND I
DON'T THINK ALL POLICE OFFICERS ARE BAD.
I HAVE HAD SOME GOOD ONES RESCUE ME FROM SOME ISSUES THAT
NOBODY ELSE COULD RESCUE ME FROM.
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