"All men are created equal": Declaration of Independence. "No person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", 5th Amendment and 14 Amendment to the Consttution". No person can be denied "the equal protection of the laws". Also the 14 Amendment. When any person, within the Unied States or property governed by the United States, is killed or maimed at time of arrest, by an officer of the law, without any "process of law" except the actions and reactions of the police, that person has been deprived of his life in violation of the 5th and 14 Amendments. This is not a question of "excessive force" or "police brutality" (altough the claim applies and iss irrefutable) it is a question of our fundamental laws applying to everyone. The black and brown citizens of this nation have seen members of their race and communities killed on the streets of America by police officers who go uncharged, unpunished, unchallenged, with impunity. The Police, like other members of the government, acting with the concurance of the elected officials in both the executive and legislative branches ( frequently even the judicial branch) are given immunity from the law rather having to face the full machinery of arrest, charge, indictment, trial, and sentence or freedom. Why are the police immune from the commands of the Constitution? Free of the demands of the major religions, "Thou shalt not kill"?
Because of prejudice, fear, and the false racial belief in the inferiority of the black and brown races. Deny one person, one group of persons, the full protection of the law and you live in anarchy. Only equal justice for all can give us justice and freedom. The people are standing in the streets asking our public servants to serve the public. They Government sent a Standing Army into the streets to silece the demands of he people for the equal protection and equal application of the laws to all people. America will die a violent death if we are refused.
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