According to CCTV News, mass protests broke out in minnesota after police in Minneapolis killed a man of African descent. The image is familiar, about two years ago, in Minneapolis, there was a police killing of a black man, and the name of the victim was Floyd. What happened after that was seen by the whole world, the United States broke out a protracted large-scale protest demonstration, and even spilled over to Europe and even Japan.
The floyd incident triggered the "Black Life" movement that lasted until Biden took office. Minneapolis, on the other hand, became a "holy land" for the "Black Life" movement during the protests that lasted for nearly a year. Now, something similar is happening in the same place, and a new wave of protests has been set off by locals.
The incident was not complicated, the police did not knock on the door during the burglary search, directly broke through the door, the deceased was startled, and this deceased was the "suspect" suspected by the police - although the police later changed their mouth and did not list the deceased as a suspect. Most crucially, the deceased pulled out a gun at the time, and in the United States, the police can judge the situation at the scene for themselves, and if they think that their lives are threatened, they can shoot to remove the threat.
This removal is to completely get rid of it, not to beat the leg or the arm, so that the other party loses the ability to fight back, that is, to directly kill and kill, only the dead will not pose any threat. According to relevant statistics, the US police will shoot and kill people in the process of law enforcement almost every day throughout the year, and there are only ten days a year when there are no police killings.
Protesters argue that what the U.S. police did in this case went from the beginning to the end. First of all, there should be no knocking on the door to search, even if it is, it should knock on the door, then show the id, and then proceed to the next action. The police directly broke through the door, and the knee-jerk reaction of the deceased must have been self-defense. Second, the deceased did not point a gun at the police, nor did he put his finger on the trigger. In other words, it did not pose a direct threat to the lives of the policemen, but the police did not say a word and beat people to death.
The protesters' demands are simple: to change the no-knocking rule, it must be permanently banned. The voice of the protesters is desperate, this is not a matter of food and clothing, but a safety issue, you can still beg for food if you don't have enough to eat, but there is no guarantee for safety, it may be watching TV at home, and the police directly rush in and shoot to end your life. One protester said in despair that he just wanted to live well.
Such a demand is actually difficult to be satisfied in the United States now, the United States mainland is constantly gunfire every day, even if the police do not kill, there will be others to shoot and kill, even if they do not provoke right and wrong, they may also be hit by stray bullets. So it entered a vicious circle, there were gunshots everywhere, in order to protect themselves, people without guns also had to buy guns, there were more people with guns, and when they didn't agree, they pulled out guns, and the gunshots became more frequent.
In this police murder case, the deceased bought a gun to protect himself, but as a result, he brought himself the disaster of killing, which was not used to deal with the police, but was killed by the police. This kind of bizarre thing is happening in the United States almost every day.