{"id":18951,"date":"2021-04-28T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:12:23","slug":"democrats-who-support-killer-cops-are-talkng-credit-for-locking-up-chauvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/democrats-who-support-killer-cops-are-talkng-credit-for-locking-up-chauvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats who support killer cops are taking credit for locking up Chauvin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article by Julia Wallace of Left Voices (USA) highlights the real movement, Black Lives Matter, which contributed to George Floyd’s killer, Derek Chauvin of the Democratic Party controlled Milwaukee city police force being found guilty of murder.<\/p>\n

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Chauvin found guilty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Democratic Party watches police murder people like George Floyd and remains silent, but when we rise up, it takes the credit.<\/p>\n

Police in the United States kill hundreds of people every year. They are rarely prosecuted, not to mention convicted. Derek Chauvin, however, was convicted of the murder of George Floyd on all three accounts today. The jury took only about 10 hours of deliberation to come to\u00a0unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

The look of surprise on Chauvin\u2019s face was telling. Cops believe they can get away with anything. Cops believe they\u2019ll rarely be charged and always acquitted. In a country that caters to cops, his conviction was historic.<\/p>\n

Now the Democratic Party, including both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, are taking credit. They claim the conviction is proof the system works, albeit \u201cthere is still a lot of work to do,\u201d as Biden put it in a speech after the verdict was announced. Biden and Harris are supporting the cynically named \u201cGeorge Floyd Justice in Policing Act,\u201d which would actually give more money to the cops.<\/p>\n

But the larger point remains. This is not a victory by the Democratic Party, nor their Black (mis)leadership proxies. Chauvin murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Democrats control Minnesota and Minneapolis. Senator Amy Klobuchar (Dem.-MN) and other politicians knew of Chauvin\u2019s history of strangling people and murder. He had a history of racist violence that went unchecked. No wonder he was shocked this murder led to his conviction.<\/p>\n

What is different this time has been the ongoing uprisings throughout the United States and around the world in the name of Black Lives Matter. People took to the streets, police precincts were burned, popular assemblies were formed, and cities were occupied by protesters. Trade unionists shut down West Coast ports, and there were Strike for Black Lives actions across the country. Protests with thousands of people took place around the world, each adding the name of George Floyd to their own local victims murdered by police. Small towns in rural states had protests. Even after the leaders of Black Lives Matter sought to demobilize folks from the streets, urging them to shift their activism to voting for Democrats, the fury and distrust did not end. It will not end. It cannot end.<\/p>\n

It is this uprising that explains why Chauvin was charged and convicted. The political party of \u201cintersectional\u201d imperialism deserves no credit, and gets none. The Democratic Party watches police murder people like George Floyd and remains silent, but when we rise up it takes the credit.<\/p>\n

As we cheer the Chauvin conviction, we must continue to rise up and fight the police and the capitalist system they protect. We need to build a movement that responds with working-class militant action whenever the police harass us or kill us. Organization and going forward with a strategy\u00a0independent<\/em>\u00a0of the imperialist Democratic Party are what are needed for more victories. We need to create a scenario in which the police dare not attack us. And ultimately we need to build a system that abolishes police \u2014 socialism.<\/p>\n

20th April 2021<\/p>\n

This article was first posted at:- Democrats Who Support Killer Cops Are Taking Credit for Locking Up Chauvin<\/a><\/p>\n

also see:<\/p>\n

1. Neo-liberalism\u2019s last stance \u2013 Left Voice (USA)<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Biden \u2013 a tranision to neo-Trumpist populism?- M. K. Kumat, Left Voice (USA)<\/a><\/p>\n

3. We Fought Trump, Time To Fight Biden Too \u2013 Left Voice (USA)<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Joe Biden \u2013 Racist and Sexist \u2013 Daniel Lazare (Weekly Worker) and Tatain Cozzarelli (Left Voice USA)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article by Julia Wallace of Left Voices (USA) highlights the real movement, Black Lives Matter, which contributed to George Floyd’s killer, Derek Chauvin of the Democratic Party controlled Milwaukee city police force being found guilty of murder. The Democratic Party watches police murder people like George Floyd and remains silent, but when we rise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1858,1867,1845,8975],"tags":[9007],"class_list":["post-18951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oppression-liberation","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-us-imperialism","category-black-liberation","tag-author-julia-wallace"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":1248,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18951"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18962,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions\/18962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}