Five years after murder – Trump’s administration seeks to forget George Floyda
United States is 25th in May 2020 murder George Floydaa black American, whose death became a symbol of police violence overnight and triggered the greatest anti -Rassian protests after the Civil Rights Movement, which eventually spread beyond US borders. Five years after the tragic event, American society does not show greater capacity to cope with injustices, which he has pointed to the murder. In some respects, it moves in the opposite direction.
Anniversary Floyd’s death were bowed in different parts at the weekend USmost memorial events were expected to be organized in Minneapolis, where Floyda stopped police five years ago and arrested it on the basis of a report that he used a $ 20 fake banknote when purchasing at one of the stores. The 46-year-old spent almost nine minutes on the ground, with a face facing down, and complaining that he could not breathe while a white-pole officer was leaning on his neck with his knee Derek Chauvin.
The police officer was later sentenced to 22 years in prison for a second -instance murder, and his three associates were also welcomed in court for violation of Floyd’s civil rights, who only observed the slow choking of the arrest that May day. But their prosecution did not meet the expectations of the masses of protesters who insisted on US streets months before and after convictions of those responsible for Floyd’s murder.
Insufficient policy response
Millions of Americans who have joined the demonstrations organized as part of the dark -haired life movement called for thorough changes and determined to deal with the wrongs they perceived as a proof of the existence of systemic racism in American society. At the top of the list of their requirements was the reform of the work of the police, trying to claim the administration of a former Democratic President Joe’s Bidn. But in later years, the reform stuck in the legislative process as one of the many victims of increasing polarization of US policy.
Since the rise of Donald Trump The fight against police violence has become even more complicated to power. A few days before the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death, the Ministry of Justice announced that it would eliminate federal control of police departments whose members have been killed in the past by unarmed black people, as well as withdrew lawsuits filed against them by Bidn’s administration.
Millions of Americans who have joined the demonstrations organized as part of the dark -haired life movement were called for thorough changes. Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters
The Trump administration is convinced that control has proven to be a « accidental experiment » in micromenedivation, and believes that the vast majority of police departments will, without it, act in accordance with laws and protect the constitutional rights of citizens.
But experts reportedly fear that federal control lack can lead to an increase in dangerous behavior among police members. « If you dismantle police responsibility and signal each time that you want an aggressive implementation of police work that will have no control, it directly and negatively affects the lives of the field in the field, » she warned of the agency Bree SpencerDirector of the Justice Program at NGO Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
‘I can’t breathe’, which has become a symbol of police violence against blacks in the US. Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters
A decline under Trump
Representatives of the African American community are also aware of this, pointing out that the state is declining due to the acts of Trump’s administration.
« Instead of making meaningful changes, Donald Trump eliminates federal control of police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville and sweeps under the carpet of the Ministry of Justice on Civil Rights violations by police departments across the country, » he said in a declaration of the weekend Derrick JohnsonPresident of the Rights Organization of the NAACP Rights, and advocated the adoption of a reform of the police work.
“Last year, 1175 people died from police officers. These deaths could be prevented if elected officials actually dared to do something. We elected them to work in our best interest – not to sit cross -arms. If it is not enough for five years, how much time do they take a law?, ”He asked.
