Cruelty and corruption are painful realities. Similarly, officers who die with pride do their duty. But the Memorial in Washington does not distinguish them.
In the footsteps of President Trump April 29 Executive order The sinister title “Strengthening and Breeding and Law enforcement agencies to search for criminals and protection of innocent citizens”, tens of thousands of police officers will go down to Washington next week for the 62nd annual honors of the National Police Week, held on May 11-17.
Signed National Law Enforcement Fund . Their names will be added at 24 067, which are already knocked out in the marble walls of national law enforcement memorials on the judicial system, walking a short walk from the US Capitol. Home Security Secretary Christie Noah will become the chief rapporteur.
Despite the powerful propaganda function of the National Police Week and Nleomf, journalists, historians and activists were unable to study origin and meaning. Having built a memorial of the judiciary and its adjacent National Museum of Law Enforcement, Nleomf is a powerful public relations machine that reinforces the Solidarity of the police through stable reports that their unjustly evil and tortured profession. Both the museum and the Internet shops of the group sell all kinds of goods knocked out “A thin blue line“The American flag is a contradictory emblem, which is largely eliminated as a white symbol of the supreme.
The National Police Week appeared with Jim Kroh South Carolina as Handmade Olina Dyuit Johnston, a three -year governor who rose to the US Senate in 1944 after the US Supreme Court beat the white basic insert Smith vs. Elraite. As the unwavering son of Palmet causes, Johnston called the state legislature prevent“Most blacks were sitting there (once). They left the stench in the nostrils of the residents of South Carolina, which will exist over the next generations.”
At the speed of the rupture, the legislative body cleaned all the references to the franchise and elections from the state statutes, before reorganizing the democratic party of South Carolina as a private segregated club to manage the electoral technique of the state. Like its predecessors Antebellum, Johnston expressed black karolin from statehood, saying: “We, the South Carolinitis, will use the necessary methods to preserve the dominance of white and preserve the houses and happiness of our people. Let the chips fall where they can!”
As the US Senior Senator submitted, Johnston Resolution of joint Senate 65 In 1961, the National Police Week signaled the contempt for black youth, and then raged along the South Carolina-and his sanction on police cruelty to stop them. The SJR 65 called on the Americans to “observe the relevant rites” “committed and dedicated efforts” by the police who heroically protect “internal freedom from fear of violence and civil violations”. The resolution also indicated May 15 to become a National Day of Memory of Peace to Honor Death. On October 1, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a Johnston resolution into law; After 30 years, the lobby of the police has been established by President Bill Clinton, ordering that the state buildings were flying the flag on this day.
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Johnston’s legacy is really running. Although he is committed to the new deal, he strongly believed that his benefits should only be reserved for whites. As the governor, his authoritarian concept of law enforcement agencies was illustrated by its location in 1935 by the National Guard machine gun campaign to seal and physically remove the popular highway from its office in the Colombian Center. . delegitimized and interfere The nomination of President Kennedy Turgud Marshal to the US Appeal Court under the second scheme, introducing into the harmonious practice of federal court politicization – a mantle he handed over to his younger colleague of Stromur Turm, which, in turn, welcomed him to his successor Lindsey Graham.
But Johnston’s true absorption measure is enshrined in his refusal as a governor to pardon a minor and mentally incompetent black youth, including Robert Ashley, 17 -year -old Frank Desh, 16 years old, and Jesse Jones, 19 years old.
In June 1944, while the American GIS stormed the beaches of Normandy, Johnston was pulling this flexible record, tightening his nose on the national final scream over the planned electricity George Junius Stiya -younger.A weak 14-year-old black youth and younger American victim of the death penalty. The death sentence of a styme, sentenced by less than 10 minutes, the death sentence of a stying, the death sentence styled on the indirect evidence and the brazen lie of law enforcement agencies who claim that he raped two young white girls after he had broken them before his death.
Johnston repeated these disgusting lies to justify his denial of pardon. A woman who asked him to regret the child’s life, Johnstan wrote: “You may be interested in knowing that the steanie killed the smaller girl to rape the larger. Then he killed the big girl and raped her dead body. Twenty minutes later he returned and tried to rape her again, but her body was too cold.” In 2014, Judge County Carmen T. Mullen liberated Unexpectedly, the conviction of the stymes, hearing the outrageous facts of the case and horrific testimony from his family.
In the era of the war, after Vietnam, Johnston’s national police germinated the seeds for the national memorial, around which law enforcement agencies could redo their image as a friendly guards through highly advertised honors. Dedicated in 1991, a police memorial on the judicial system is a national law enforcement shrine for visitors to the National Police. Unfortunately, the memorial is not careful curation of those who died honorable.
Of the 378 southern kings on the wall, more than a third were killed under the Redeemer and Jim Kroh; they include ClansLeaders of Lynch, Networking gangsransomers and murderers. Perhaps a dozen heroic death died. A considerable number lost their lives through the unwanted cars, and others were not on duty or sworn. Archival excavations of these deaths brought a cooled chronicle of police terror as unjustified proof that without its energetic violence, intimidation and corruption of the age of the devastating apartheid could not be supported.
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Consider the contrast cases of three squirrel heroes with Jim Krohu South Carolina.
In 1915, a crowd led by local police killed a Ferfield County Sheriff Adam Hood and his deputy Boulware Raleigh At the court attacks, when they carried out to judge a young black defendant who is incredibly accused of rape. (He also died in ambush.) The jury was justified by the killers as a knightly defenders of the white female. A few years later, Eiken Henry H. Goard, a confirmed Clansman, died until Running a false raid of alcohol Like a Vendeta clan in a flowering black farmer who also killed a family matriarch and an unborn baby. The Supreme Court of the state announced a raid that was illegal use of force. However, Howard is still considered a local hero, despite his responsibility for five linchs in two separate shooting activities in 1921, and in 1926 in 1926. The Coroner of the County, another clansman, was cynically attributed to the death of a widespread “person unknown”.
Murder of police, violence and corruption painful and indisputable realities, both historical and modern. Similarly, meaningless and tragic loss of life among the officers who are dying in their duties. Their victims are reduced by the inclusion of the memorial of people such as Howard and dozens, too numerous to find out here. As long as law enforcement agencies in America do not conduct honest reckoning with this dark history, its egofins in police heroism will continue to alienate broad spots of American society, whose people can only dream of a police culture, which is really based on the motion, “serve and defend.”
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