China News Service, Beijing, June 1st: Protests under the epidemic, American society tears new wounds

  China News Agency reporter Diao Haiyang

  The American African-American man George Floyd was violently executed by white police on May 25 local time, and has continued to ferment for several days. There have been many protests and demonstrations in the United States and riots in some places. This incident involving conflicts between the police and the people and racial discrimination far exceeds the intensity of another iconic incident that occurred during the same period-the death toll of the new US crown exceeded 100,000, highlighting the fragile side of American society.

  The incident that caused public anger occurred on the 25th when the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pressed Floyd to the ground and pressed his neck with his knees. The live video showed that the whole process lasted at least 5 minutes. During this time, Freud continued to struggle, beg, and repeatedly shouted "I can't breathe." Subsequently, Freud fell into a coma and died after being taken to the hospital.

On May 30th, local time, in Chicago, the United States, several protesters wore masks with the words "I can't breathe" and took to the streets to protest.

  In fact, this is not the first time that the phrase "I can't breathe" appears in such incidents. In July 2014, the African-American man Eric Ghana was killed by the New York police “locking his throat” for resisting arrest. In the process of being "locked", Ghana also shouted "I can't breathe" many times. The problem of white police enforcement against African-American violence is only a microcosm of the racial problems in American society.

  The tragedy's recurrence shows that the persistent disease of racial discrimination has not been alleviated in the United States, but has broken new ground in the fragile American society. This is also the fundamental reason why American people took to the streets to hold protests and demonstrations. The US Capitol Hill pointed out sharply in a comment on May 30, "In the United States, black people do not have much room to make mistakes. Because every mistake made by black people may become a reason for being" justified. "

  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on May 28 that racial discrimination is "rooted" in the United States, and the United States must take "serious action" to prevent more African Americans from dying in the hands of the police and racial discrimination.

On May 31, local time, the United States capital Washington broke out anti-racial discrimination demonstrations for the third consecutive day. The picture shows demonstrators protesting on the north side of the White House. China News Agency reporter Chen Meng Tongshe

  What is more worrying is that the persistent racial discrimination in the United States is not only unsolved, but also showing a deteriorating trend. In recent years, racism has been accompanied by a resurgence of populist ideas and xenophobia, and there has been a tendency for scum to rise. Affected by its domestic political environment, some white supremacists have become increasingly high-profile. It must be said that some politicians in the United States have an inescapable responsibility for this. Their anti-immigration and anti-ethnic minority statements have contributed to the increasing publicity of discrimination.

  Statistics from the American Anti-Defamation League show that in the past two years, white supremacists have created at least 73 fatal incidents, of which more than half are clearly driven by ideologies that promote racial hatred.

  One of the most significant incidents occurred in 2017. In August of that year, a conflict between white supremacists and anti-racial discriminators broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia. A white supremacist drove into a crowd and caused many deaths. In response to this incident, US President Trump did not condemn the white supremacists for a long time, incurring tide-like criticism.

  After the Freud incident evolved into continuous riots on the ground, Trump again made controversial remarks. On May 29, he tweeted the local government on Twitter, calling the demonstrators "thugs" and warning that "dare to rob, just shoot." His remarks were officially recognized by Twitter as "beautifying violence". Another commented that it "concerned only about riots, not the systemic root causes of riots."

On May 30th, local time, Detroit, Michigan, USA, an American flag flying upside down was abandoned on the streets after the protest.

  When it comes to systemic root causes, the American judicial system is likely to blame. For a long time, the US law enforcement agencies lacked institutional arrangements to eliminate discriminatory law enforcement; at the same time, some law enforcement officers wearing colored glasses were accustomed to engaging in “selective law enforcement” and “violent law enforcement”; Abuse of violence during law enforcement. In the judicial sector, the police involved are usually lightly sentenced, and some will not even be prosecuted. Unfair rulings and disposals of such cases have also triggered repeated protests and demonstrations.

  In this kind of deformed closed loop, African-Americans will always be the party to be crushed to the ground. Incidents like "I can't breathe" happen from time to time, and discriminatory law enforcement is more common. It can be said that the dignity and human rights of ethnic minority Americans have long been systematically ignored.

  As American human rights researcher Kevin Cockley put it, "Unarmed black men are repeatedly mercilessly killed by the police. It reveals the truth: people may be born equal, but not everyone is treated equally." (End)