Nearly one year, what has Freud’s death changed
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According to a recent poll in the United States, 60% of respondents believe that racism is a "very or extremely serious" problem, which is similar to the survey figures a year ago.
From the outside, the Freud case has been accompanied by various anti-racism movements in the past year since the intensification of racial conflicts in American society and the activity of white supremacy.
On May 25, it has been a year since George Floyd, an African American man, was kneeled to death by a white policeman on the streets of Minneapolis.
Over the past year, the long, large-scale wave of anti-violent law enforcement and protests against racial discrimination triggered by Freud's death has been staged one after another in many parts of the United States.
What did Freud's death change?
Can it play a positive role in eliminating the deep-rooted issue of racial discrimination in the United States?
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According to US media reports, on the first anniversary of George Floyd's "kneeling", US President Biden plans to receive his family at the White House on May 25.
The Associated Press reported that this was announced by White House Press Secretary Psaki in a daily briefing on the 21st, but did not provide more details on how Biden will commemorate.
On May 25, 2020, African-American Freud was killed by white policeman Xiao Wan on the streets of Minneapolis by kneeling and pressing his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
After the exposure of Freud's near-death call for help "I can't breathe" video, it triggered a long, large-scale wave of anti-violent law enforcement and protests against racial discrimination across the United States.
On April 20 this year, nearly 11 months after the incident, Xiao Wan was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Regarding the verdict, Freud’s family and lawyers issued a statement that day, saying that “the significance of the verdict extends far beyond this city, and it has a major impact on the country and even the world. Justice for African Americans is also justice for the entire United States.” .
In their reports, many American media quoted the lawyers commissioned by the Freud family to comment on the case: This is a turning point in American history.
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Can Freud's death really change America?
On May 21st, the American Chinese Net published a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center.
The poll showed that 60% of respondents believed that racism in the United States was a "very or extremely serious" problem, which was similar to the survey figures a year ago.
The survey showed that about half of Americans, including 60% of African Americans, said that the fact that former white police officer Xiao Wan was convicted in the Freud case did not change their confidence in the criminal justice system.
The investigation also found that, in addition to police violent enforcement, about 80% of African Americans and about two-thirds of Hispanic and Asian Americans believe that racism exists in American society and call it a serious or very serious problem.
The vast majority of African Americans believe that they themselves have encountered discrimination in various ways.
60% of African American respondents said they were "often" or "sometimes" discriminated against when dealing with the police; 30% of Asian Americans and 40% of Hispanics believed that they had encountered race in police enforcement. Discrimination.
In addition, about 60% of African Americans said that they often face discrimination when applying for jobs, in shops or shopping malls; about half of African Americans are discriminated against when applying for housing or loans; about 40% of African Americans are applying for medical treatment. Discrimination in health care.
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In fact, according to the New York Times, in the year since the Freud incident occurred, 34 states that support or tend to support the Republican Party have passed a total of 81 laws restricting protesters’ activities at the local level. Protesters of anti-discrimination movements such as "Black people's fate is also fate."
From the outside, the Freud case has been accompanied by various anti-racism movements in the past year, and it is the activity of white supremacy after the intensification of racial contradictions in American society.
According to U.S. media reports, on April 23 this year, the FBI announced that it had increased charges against 106 congressional assailants.
Prior to this, more than 400 suspects in 42 states have been arrested.
The FBI pointed out in a report that most of the 500 suspects arrested were members of extremist organizations with white supremacy such as neo-Nazis, fascists, or the Ku Klux Klan.
In February of this year, the US Department of Homeland Security released a report stating that multiple white supremacist organizations are recruiting members through the Internet, and various organizations are linked to each other, and they are characterized by militarization, specialization, and lone-wolf-style crimes.
Not only that, the negotiations for the "George Freud Police Justice Act", which was previously high hopes and named after Freud, have stalled on Capitol Hill.
Biden had previously set the first anniversary of Freud's death as the deadline for the passage of the bill, but there has been little progress in negotiations.
As Drake Chauvin was convicted of all three crimes, some comments pointed out, for Freud personally, this was a late justice; but it was more like a solitary victory: The former is rare, and it is harder to say that there will be another one.
Correspondingly, the "corroboration" is that recently, a video of a white American man William Jannett being crushed to the ground by law enforcement officers in a Tennessee prison was exposed.
According to reports, during the compression, the man repeatedly shouted that he could not breathe but was verbally abused by the police on the side.
It has been more than a year since the incident, but the grand jury refused to charge any police officer involved.
At present, Janet’s daughter Dominic Janet has filed a lawsuit, “All he wants is help, but what he gets is hatred.”
Zhao Xiaozhan