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<h1><font size=4><b>Report on the Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black
People</b></font></h1><font size=3>
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</font><h3><b>Report on Black People Executed without Trial by Police,
Security Guards and Self-Appointed Law Enforcers January 1 – June 30,
2012.</b></h3><font size=3><i>This report was produced for the “No More
Trayvon Martins Campaign”, demanding a National Plan of Action for Racial
Justice. This is the 2nd Major report of the Campaign.<br><br>
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link</a>.</b></h3><font size=3>A human rights crisis confronts Black
people in the United States. Since January 1, 2012, police and a much
smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have
murdered at least 110 Black women and men. These killings are definitely
not accidental or random acts of violence or the work of rogue cops. As
we noted in our April 6th, 2012 “<b><i>Trayvon Martin is All of
US!</i></b>” <b>Report</b> (see
<a href="http://mxgm.org/trayvon-martin-is-all-of-us/">
http://mxgm.org/trayvon-martin-is-all-of-us/</a>), the use of deadly
force against Black people is standard practice in the United States, and
woven into to the very fabric of the society.<br><br>
The corporate media have given very little attention to these
extrajudicial killings. We call them “extrajudicial” because they happen
without trial or any due process, against all international law and human
rights conventions. Those few mainstream media outlets that mention the
epidemic of killings have been are unwilling to acknowledge that the
killings are systemic – meaning they are embedded in institutional racism
and national oppression. On the contrary, nearly all of the mainstream
media join in a chorus that sings the praises of the police and read from
the same script that denounces the alleged “thuggery” of the deceased.
Sadly, too many people believe the police version of events and the
media’s “blame-the-victim” narratives that justify and support these
extrajudicial killings.<br><br>
However, we have studied each of the reports of these deaths including
false, implausible and inconsistent claims by police and witness reports
that contradict police reports. From this study and many peoples’
experience, we must reject the corporate media’s rationalization for the
horrible fact that in the first six months of this year, one Black person
every 40 hours was executed. This wanton disregard for Black life
resulted in the killing of 13 year-old children, fathers taking care of
their kids, women driving the wrong cars, as well as people with mental
health and drug problems.<br><br>
This report documents how people of African descent remain “without
sanctuary” throughout the United States. Nowhere is a Black woman or man
safe from racial profiling, invasive policing, constant surveillance, and
overriding suspicion. All Black people – regardless of education, class,
occupation, behavior or dress – are subject to the whims of the police
whose institutionalized racist policies and procedures require them to
arbitrarily stop, frisk, arrest, brutalize and even execute Black
people.<br><br>
Invasive policing is only one aspect of the U.S. states comprehensive
containment strategies to exploit Black people and to smother resistance.
To contain the upsurge of the Black liberation movement of the 1960’s and
70’s and protect the system of white supremacy the institutional forces
of racism have worked through governments at every level to destabilize
the Black community via community divestment, massive employment
discrimination, outsourcing, gentrification and other forms of economic
dislocation. In addition, schools, housing, healthcare, other social
services and transportation in Black communities have been denied
equitable provision and distribution of public goods and
resources.<br><br>
The U.S. state maintains and reinforces these economic injustices with
the militarized occupation of Black communities by the police and a web
of racist legislation like the “war on drugs”, discriminatory polices
like “three strikes” and “mandatory minimum” sentencing. The result is a
social system that mandates the prison warehousing of millions of Black
people and extrajudicial killings where the killers act with impunity and
more often than not are rewarded and promoted for murder. The oppression
and police occupation of Black communities parallels the brutalization,
denial of human rights and killings being committed by the Israeli
occupying forces in Palestine, and the persecution of Afrodescendants in
Columbia and the Indigenous peoples of Brazil over the past several
years. Nothing short of the structural integrity and survival of the
Black community is at stake when we consider the historic
record.<br><br>
For those who doubted the framing of the “<i>Trayvon Martin is All of
Us!</i>” <i>Report</i>, this 6th month update proves beyond a shadow of a
doubt that the institutionalized violence of white supremacy is not only
alive and well, but is, in fact, intensifying. To complete the picture,
we must take into account the extrajudicial killings and other repressive
policies directed at other targeted peoples and communities such as
Indigenous peoples, Latinos, Arabs, Muslims, and immigrants. These, in
conjunction with the oppression of Black people, demonstrate that the
U.S. government remains committed to maintaining the system of white
supremacy created by the aggressive and illegal European settler-colonies
that first established the national-state project.<br><br>
This crisis can only be stopped through decisive action. First, the Black
community must organize its own self-defense. Second, we must build a
broad, mass movement capable of forcing the government to enact
transformative legislation based on our demands. The fundamental
transformative demand must be for a <b><i>National Plan of Action for
Racial Justice </i></b>to eliminate institutional racism and advance the
struggle for self-determination. The Black community itself will
determine the specific contents of <i>The Plan, </i>drawing from the
foundation of CERD (the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Racial
Discrimination) and the DDPA (Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action).<br><br>
We call on everyone who believes that decisive action must be taken by
Black and other oppressed peoples to confront and defeat national
oppression and white supremacy to join us in developing an independent,
mass movement for human rights that builds power in our communities and
will have the capacity to force the Federal authorities to implement a
comprehensive National Plan of Action for Racial Justice. You can
join us immediately by helping us secure 1 million signatures to our
petition (see
<a href="http://mxgm.org/trayvon-martin-is-all-of-us/">
http://mxgm.org/trayvon-martin-is-all-of-us/</a>), organizing Copwatch
and People’s Self-Defense campaigns, fighting for elected Police Control
Boards, the demilitarization of our communities, and the reinvestment of
the military and security budget into community reinvestment and social
programs amongst other suggestions provided in our “<b><i>Local
Struggles</i></b>” paper (see
<a href="http://mxgm.org/no-more-trayvons-campaign/">
http://mxgm.org/no-more-trayvons-campaign/</a>). We also encourage
communities to organize their own grassroots crisis intervention,
domestic violence prevention/control and mediation teams so families in
crisis do not become so desperate for help that they compound their
problems by calling 9-1-1 and inviting the police into their
homes.<br><br>
We also call all organizations and individuals who agree with the demand
and framework for a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice to help us
build the <b>National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights</b>
(NARJHR) as a structure that will help us develop and implement a
comprehensive national plan that centers oppressed peoples’ right to
self-determination and the full realization of our human rights.<br><br>
For more information about the Report or any of these action proposals,
contact Kali Akuno at
<a href="mailto:kaliakuno@mxgm.org">kaliakuno@mxgm.org</a>.<br><br>
FOOTNOTES<br><br>
<sup>1</sup> The figures for the number of Palestinians killed in 2011
can be found at
<a href="http://www.ochaopt.org/poc.aspx?id=1010002">
http://www.ochaopt.org/poc.aspx?id=1010002</a>. Figures for
Afro-Colombians can be found at
<a href="http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2322/">
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2322/</a>,
<a href="http://www.afrocolombians.com/pdfs/PCNonFTA-April12.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.afrocolombians.com/pdfs/PCNonFTA-April12.pdf</a> and
<a href="http://news.afrocolombians.com/news/?sectionid=8">
http://news.afrocolombians.com/news/?sectionid=8</a>. Figures on
Indigenous peoples killed in Brazil can be found at
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/world/americas/in-brazil-violence-hits-tribes-in-scramble-for-land.html">
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/world/americas/in-brazil-violence-hits-tribes-in-scramble-for-land.html</a>
.<br><br>
<sup>2</sup> To read the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of
Racial Discrimination see
<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm">
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm</a>. To read the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action see
<a href="http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009/ddpa.shtml">
http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009/ddpa.shtml</a>.<br><br>
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