Antonio Martin, 18—the Latest Black Man Killed by Police in ameriKKKa
December 24, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty, misery and degradation into which the system has cast people and is determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about, with all of their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that enforces all this oppression and madness.
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12/24/14. Late last night, a policeman shot and killed Antonio Martin, an 18-year-old Black man, in Berkeley, Missouri—a predominantly Black suburb of St. Louis just a few miles from Ferguson.
Details of what happened are unknown, and the police account should not be taken as fact What IS a fact is that yet another Black man was killed by police, that there is an epidemic of police murder and terror, and that it has to STOP.
Immediately after the killing, a crowd gathered and different forms of outrage erupted. The images in this slideshow reflect the horror, pain, and righteous anger in the moments after the killing, including a die-in on the spot. Other forms of protest went on into the night.
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