Cops are pigs. Occupiers. Willing members of the prison-industrial complex who send black people to prison for no other reason except racism.
That is what you have to know to make sense of two cases of black mob violence and lawlessness directed in 2013 at the police. One in New York. One in Chicago. Both on video. Both just a tiny smattering of the racial animosity directed at cops. Every day.
In Brooklyn, Stephen Stowe and eight other black people became upset when they tried to exchange Moslem greetings with a Jew on the subway.
"Assalamu Alaikum," Stowe said to the man, using a common greeting among Muslims that means, "Peace be with you.” When the man ignored the greeting, Stowe allegedly became combative, reported the New York Daily News.371
"You think you're better than me?" the black teen allegedly said. "We are cousins."
"No we’re not," The man shot back, and told Stowe to leave him alone, the Daily News reported.
The suspect then started hurling ethnic slurs and called the man disrespectful. The penalty for disrespecting a black mob in a New York subway apparently is the threat of death and the theft of a phone. “They should have killed all of you,” Stowe told his potential victim, a relatively common slur directed at Jewish people referring to the Holocaust. Then they tried to steal his phone.
The New York Daily News and WND both report that black mob violence against Jews is growing increasingly common in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn -- with dozens of incidents the last two years.372
But this incident of black mob violence was just getting started.
When the subway pulled into the next station, police were waiting to take Stowe into custody. But the crowd of more than 50 black people would have no part of it.
They surrounded the police. Crowded them as they tried to subdue Stowe in the subway car. Taunted them. Ignored police orders to move back. They tried to stop them from arresting Stowe while they waited for re-enforcements. All while Stowe was on the ground, struggling with one of the officers.373
It was chaos. Of the more than 50 black people surrounding police, not one helped in any way. Or as one police officer remarked in an email “Not one piece of shit would help the police in this video. Not one.”
As police wrestled with Stowe, Sheniqua Joseph was particularly vocal in urging other members of the mob to assist her in stopping the arrest.
Four minutes into the video she was also arrested. She also resisted. “Why y’all doing this,” she shouted as cops wrestled her to the ground.
It’s what they do, Sheniqua.
In Chicago, Jamaal Moore and four other black people were suspects in a truck hijacking in December 2013 on the city’s South Side. The victim told police five black men pulled a gun, robbed him, then fled in a silver SUV.
Minutes later, police spotted Moore and his friends in their silver SUV and when they attempted to pull them over, they fled. After a high-speed chase, the car crashed. Four of the men ran away, leaving Moore behind. After a struggle where Moore was beating the police officer and reaching for his gun, a policewoman shot Moore two times, killing him.
Soon after, hundreds of black people were at the scene, yelling profanities at the police, complaining of police brutality. They also threw “bottles, bricks and rocks,” said the Chicago Tribune.374 On video. When the Trib cannot ignore it, you know it has to be big.
Moore had a long history of trouble with the law, including a 2006 arrest and conviction for armed robbery.
Several days after the riot, Revolution News reported that a flyer urging more violent action against the police was distributed in Chicago neighborhoods. And the paper urged us to reconsider our view of Mr. Moore:
Jamaal had "put aside all of his youthful habits and was getting things together so he could take care of his 4-month-old son," said Revolution News.375
When Jamaal's mother asked the police what was going on, one cop told her "Another n*gger dead." This, in a nutshell, is the racist and genocidal program these enforcers carry out for the system. The cops taunted the crowd with this shit and the people erupted with righteous anger right in the cops' faces. People were shouting,
"We're tired of this. We're tired of them shooting down our kids." And "fuck the police!" In the face of the guns and clubs, the people defiantly fought back.
Despite the dozens of cell phone cameras capturing the action, not one captured a recording of police using racial epithets. Nevertheless, Revolution Newspaper said Moore was really a victim, not the violent predator police would have us believe he is.
“It is the workings of the capitalist-imperialist SYSTEM that produces killer cops and the mass incarceration of a whole generation of Black and Latino youth—over 2.4 million in prison,” said the paper. “We need a revolution to end once and for all the brutal, vicious oppression of Black people.”
Or as one Chicago protestor exclaimed on video: “Fuck the police,” he said on a seven-minute video. “They can’t do shit if we start a riot right now. They can’t shoot all of us.”376 Sheniqua wanted an explanation. There it is.