“The police are often as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.” ― Steven Magee
The Police kill as part of their social function
x Gearóid Ó Loingsigh: The murder of Javier Ordoñez in the Villa Luz neighborhood of Bogotá by two police officers highlights the issue of police violence and its role in society
First we must be clear that we are talking about a murder, not an accident. They hit him so many times with the Taser, it was predictable that he would kill him. Segundo did not violate their duty or act against his training, on the contrary, as much as those who believe that it is an institution with only a few bad apples may dislike it.
In the US the role of the police and the disproportionate murder of black people has twisted the debate and is presented as an issue that has to do only with racism, even when the victims are white or the police officers are black. The truth is that in the US the police kill more blacks than whites as a percentage of the population, but they still kill whites. What most blacks and whites who die at the hands of the police have in common is their social class.
Now in Colombia, the Police assassinate a 46-year-old man in the Villa Luz neighborhood in Bogotá. A lawyer and engineer who worked as a taxi driver How do we explain this fact in light of the Black Lives Matter discourse? The reality is that we cannot. There is racism in the Police, that is true and it is a very important factor when acting, that is also true. Yet police forces are the same all over the world, both in the US and in Colombia and elsewhere.
One of the most problematic police forces is that of South Africa, a black police force of a black government, but still repressive, or that of Russia, white and oppressing other whites. Now we have to see how the Bogotá Police not only assassinate young people in demonstrations as happened last year with Dilan Cruz, but how they electrocute in cold blood in a Bogotá neighborhood. We must be clear that it is not the first time they kill, nor will it be the last time, however, the circumstances of the murder are such that we can discuss it without the usual excuses of the tombos and the social democracy.
In 2019, the police in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) killed 1,810 people, an average of five a day. In 2019, a Kenyan police killed 122 people. From October 2019 to January 2020, the Iraqi police killed about 600 people From 2015 to 2018, more than 500 people were killed in Jamaica by police shots that also shot and injured more than 300. About 1,000 people are killed each year at the hands of the police in the United States [1]
It is obvious from this short list that in some cases racism is a factor, Brazil and the US and in other countries it is not. Thus, police violence is not explained in terms of racism, although racism exists and influences their performance. The real explanation has to do with their social function, something that the Colombian social democracy committed to the peace process does not want to recognize.
The Police is not a neutral force, it represents the armed and repressive arm of the bourgeoisie. In addition, the training programs around the world are very similar, with some differences with respect to certain minor procedures. If we see torture around the world, assassinations around the world, repression of strikes around the world, that cannot be explained by the speech of the bad apples, nor can it be explained by the cheap speech of reforming the police forces. We are not against reforms or putting legal, moral or social limits on the Police. But the problem is a fundamental one.
x Gearóid Ó Loingsigh: The murder of Javier Ordoñez in the Villa Luz neighborhood of Bogotá by two police officers highlights the issue of police violence and its role in society
First we must be clear that we are talking about a murder, not an accident. They hit him so many times with the Taser, it was predictable that he would kill him. Segundo did not violate their duty or act against his training, on the contrary, as much as those who believe that it is an institution with only a few bad apples may dislike it.
In the US the role of the police and the disproportionate murder of black people has twisted the debate and is presented as an issue that has to do only with racism, even when the victims are white or the police officers are black. The truth is that in the US the police kill more blacks than whites as a percentage of the population, but they still kill whites. What most blacks and whites who die at the hands of the police have in common is their social class.
Now in Colombia, the Police assassinate a 46-year-old man in the Villa Luz neighborhood in Bogotá. A lawyer and engineer who worked as a taxi driver How do we explain this fact in light of the Black Lives Matter discourse? The reality is that we cannot. There is racism in the Police, that is true and it is a very important factor when acting, that is also true. Yet police forces are the same all over the world, both in the US and in Colombia and elsewhere.
One of the most problematic police forces is that of South Africa, a black police force of a black government, but still repressive, or that of Russia, white and oppressing other whites. Now we have to see how the Bogotá Police not only assassinate young people in demonstrations as happened last year with Dilan Cruz, but how they electrocute in cold blood in a Bogotá neighborhood. We must be clear that it is not the first time they kill, nor will it be the last time, however, the circumstances of the murder are such that we can discuss it without the usual excuses of the tombos and the social democracy.
In 2019, the police in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) killed 1,810 people, an average of five a day. In 2019, a Kenyan police killed 122 people. From October 2019 to January 2020, the Iraqi police killed about 600 people From 2015 to 2018, more than 500 people were killed in Jamaica by police shots that also shot and injured more than 300. About 1,000 people are killed each year at the hands of the police in the United States [1]
It is obvious from this short list that in some cases racism is a factor, Brazil and the US and in other countries it is not. Thus, police violence is not explained in terms of racism, although racism exists and influences their performance. The real explanation has to do with their social function, something that the Colombian social democracy committed to the peace process does not want to recognize.
The Police is not a neutral force, it represents the armed and repressive arm of the bourgeoisie. In addition, the training programs around the world are very similar, with some differences with respect to certain minor procedures. If we see torture around the world, assassinations around the world, repression of strikes around the world, that cannot be explained by the speech of the bad apples, nor can it be explained by the cheap speech of reforming the police forces. We are not against reforms or putting legal, moral or social limits on the Police. But the problem is a fundamental one.
'Last Words of the Unarmed'
‘I don’t have a gun. Stop shooting.’ – Michael Brown
‘You shot me! You shot me!’ – Oscar Grant
‘It’s not real.’ – John Crawford
‘I can’t breathe.’ – Eric Garner
El Tiempo reported the murder with a headline Protests and vandalism after death in case of police brutality. [2] The headline is misleading. There were protests (https://lahaine.org/dG9S), but what they did cannot be described as vandalism, rather it is the people expressing their anger and it is not a case of death in case of police brutality, but murder at the hands of the Police.
Young people who have had to suffer repression and negligence from the State during confinement by Covid-19 express their justified anger at another case of thousands of abuses by government lackeys. The protests spread throughout the city of Bogotá to neighborhoods that were physically and socially far away from Villa Luz, even in La Soledad there were protests. They also spread to other cities, burning CAIs in various parts. Before we get the pleas of the Democratic Pole and others, we must be clear that those who burn the CAIs are not criminals, the criminals are those who are in the CAIs, the Police, all, without exceptions, because the National Police is an organized gang at the service of the State and its repressive policies.
Young people who have had to suffer repression and negligence from the State during confinement by Covid-19 express their justified anger at another case of thousands of abuses by government lackeys. The protests spread throughout the city of Bogotá to neighborhoods that were physically and socially far away from Villa Luz, even in La Soledad there were protests. They also spread to other cities, burning CAIs in various parts. Before we get the pleas of the Democratic Pole and others, we must be clear that those who burn the CAIs are not criminals, the criminals are those who are in the CAIs, the Police, all, without exceptions, because the National Police is an organized gang at the service of the State and its repressive policies.
We are not facing an isolated murder, we are facing an event where the Police fulfill their social function, whether or not our pazologists and Congressmen from Polo like it. I do not know Javier Ordoñez, but his death causes me deep sadness, and at the same time it causes me immense joy to see young people express their anger and indignation at his murder.
Young people burning the CAIs, do not listen to the congressmen, do not listen to reasonable voices! That was not an accident, that was not an excessive use of force, that was the Police doing and fulfilling their duty commanded by Congress itself. , Mayor's office; when you burned down the CAIs, you burned down the workplace of your mortal class enemies. Don't be fooled, they murdered him and you expressed justified rage.
Young people burning the CAIs, do not listen to the congressmen, do not listen to reasonable voices! That was not an accident, that was not an excessive use of force, that was the Police doing and fulfilling their duty commanded by Congress itself. , Mayor's office; when you burned down the CAIs, you burned down the workplace of your mortal class enemies. Don't be fooled, they murdered him and you expressed justified rage.
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