Famed civil lawyer Ben Crump has weighed in on the MAGA-fied U.S. Division of Justice’s current choice to finish Biden-era police-accountability agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville that got here on account of in depth investigations following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. It’s the newest choice made by the DOJ’s civil rights division that signifies the Trump administration‘s intent to halt any and all civil rights progress aimed toward correcting systemic racism, besides, after all, for the fictional systemic racism towards white People (and, apparently, white Afrikaners in South Africa).
First, right here’s Crump’s full assertion:
“Simply days earlier than the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s homicide — a second that galvanized a worldwide motion for justice — the U.S. Division of Justice has chosen to show its again on the very communities it pledged to guard. By strolling away from consent decrees in Minneapolis and Louisville, and shutting its investigation into the Memphis Police Division whereas retracting findings of great constitutional violations, the DOJ is not only rolling again reform, it’s making an attempt to erase reality and contradicting the very ideas for which justice stands.
“This choice is a slap within the face to the households of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tyre Nichols, and to each group that has endured the trauma of police violence and the false guarantees of accountability. These consent decrees and investigations weren’t symbolic gestures, they have been lifelines for communities crying out for change, rooted in years of organizing, struggling, and advocacy.
“These strikes will solely deepen the divide between legislation enforcement and the folks they’re sworn to guard and serve. Belief is constructed with transparency and accountability, not with denial and retreat.
“However let me be clear: We is not going to quit. This motion is not going to be swayed or deterred by fickle politics. It’s anchored within the irrefutable reality that Black lives matter, and that justice shouldn’t rely on who’s in energy.
“We’ll proceed to struggle for the reforms we all know are essential. For federal oversight that holds police departments accountable. For an finish to the brutalization of our communities. For a future the place justice isn’t an exception, however the rule.”
Thoughts you, the announcement of the DOJ choice additionally got here simply in the future after it was introduced that the exact same DOJ permitted a virtually $5 million settlement for the household of Ashli Babbitt—the Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who acquired herself shot and killed by a Capitol police officer, Lt. Michael Byrd, whereas climbing over a barricade contained in the Capitol constructing that rioters have been warned to not breach. It’s nearly as if this administration isn’t even bothering to cover its not-so-subtle intention to make white supremacy nice once more.
It’s price noting that, in accordance to The Washington Put up, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the DOJ’s announcement that it’s going to rescind the police reform settlement by declaring that his metropolis will nonetheless comply with via with it. Leaders in Louisville reportedly stated the identical.
“We’ll adjust to each sentence of each paragraph of the 169-page consent decree that we signed this yr,” Frey stated throughout a current information briefing.
After all, it’s additionally price mentioning that the DOJ stated it additionally plans to shut investigations into native police departments in Phoenix, Memphis, Oklahoma Metropolis and different cities that have been launched underneath President Joe Biden.
In brief: if you’d like any semblance of police reform, you just about should be a Jan. 6 Capitol rioter.
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