The internets newswire is buzzing around the resignation of the officer responsible for the handgun lynching of AMADOU DIALLO SEAN BELL OSCAR GRANT III. A protest in the Bay area turned ugly as the tensions are very raw and unrequited.
The officer was scheduled to answer questions from the internal affairs division of the Bay Are Rapid Transit police, but he opted instead for having his attorney submit a resignation letter. This is an odd choice for action from the officer especially since the BART influenced media machine was flying the story that the officer mistook his handgun for a handheld Taser pistol.
What is incredible to this point is all the video that people have captured from their communication devices. The quality and sound is rich and dramatic. I am posting one of the YouTube clips that recently surfaced. I wonder if we won’t see some manner of censorship placed on YouTube for allowing these types of videos to be posted.
I so badly wish that OSCAR GRANT had not been a Black kid because the real story is the rise of unadulterated and unaccountable fascism. The officer resigns from his job and sits in his home. I remember that NYC had a week of “hell nights” after the murder of SEAN BELL in the vain attempt to find another witness to corroborate the officers story of a fourth man. If there had been a fourth man in the car with SEAN BELL there would have been a fourth guy with bullets inside of his body. All the police did was kick in doors in the south Queens neighborhood and convince people to keep their mouths shut.
This is another execution of a poor person by another poor person. Except in this case the killer won’t have to be accountable for his crimes and a whole community is changed forever. Even though this story is repeated ad nauseam for Black males we have to see that this murder is the result of all the wrong values we are instilling within people. The police, the onlookers and the victims are all complicit for allowing this situation to exist and multiply. How do we remove this cancer from our collective bodies?
With a lot of pain.
Collectively.
