Continued blind violence by US police against defenseless citizens
According to an IRNA report on Friday from the CNN website; The Tennessee Federal Police Office said Landon Steppe, 37, was sitting on the railings of a state highway near Nashville after nearly 30 minutes of arguing with officers who had stopped traffic and asked him to relocate. He lost his life.
Officers fired at the man after he moved to move and reach for a metal cylindrical body on his back, although it was later determined that the object was not a firearm. The altercation erupted after a state police officer tried to pull the stopper off the highway.
Nashville Plus and Tennessee Highway patrol officers tried to end the altercation by closing part of the highway, but after the man pulled a clear silver cylindrical object from his pocket, nine officers fired at him simultaneously. Which led to his death at the scene.
Although the officers present at the scene had a shock device, they did not use it.
The killing of a number of black Americans, including George Floyd, has sparked opposition to police brutality and raised the voices of critics of violations of equal rights and social justice and the fight against discrimination and violence.
According to the Daily Twenty website; Recently released images of the killing of a 17-year-old teenager of color in the US state of Kansas, just two days after his arrest and torture in a juvenile detention center, sparked another wave of public outrage; A wave that may echo the outrage of angry Americans over the 2020 assassination of George Floyd.
The video shows them an hour and a half after agents transferred 17-year-old Cedric Lufton to a detention center on September 26 (October 25), they tried to restrain him and, following resistance, forcibly transferred him to a cell and He lay face down on the floor of the cell for more than 30 minutes and was then handcuffed. But a few minutes later they noticed that his heartbeat had stopped.
The death of this teenager, like George Floyd last year (1399), has attracted public attention in the United States.
The widespread outcry from the American people, especially the black community, in protest of the assassination of George Floyd in 2020, has long continued in various states.
The Civil Rights Group of the National Association for the Improvement of the Color of the United States called for the perpetrators of the incident to be brought to justice, declaring that their deaths were negligent or intentional, inhumane and inhumane, and that the perpetrators should be fully prosecuted. . Law enforcement officers’ violent treatment of the black community cannot continue.
George Floyd died in May of last year at the age of 46 while a Minneapolis police officer rested his knee on his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd’s death and the shocking images of the moment sparked a wave of outrage in the United States that led to widespread protests against racism and police brutality in the treatment of African American citizens. In July of this year, a Minnesota state court sentenced Derek Schoin, the police officer who killed Floyd, to 22 and a half years in prison.
New research shows that more than 450 US police officers have died after being infected with Covid-19 or on duty in 2021, the highest number of police casualties in the country’s history, the Washington Times reported. . A police report by the Memorial Foundation for Police Officers shows that the deaths of 458 US police officers who died of coronary heart disease or duty in 2021 are 55% higher than the number of police deaths in 2020. This year (2020) 295 police officers have died due to coronation or occupational hazards.
The report also found that the majority of the 458 police officers who died in 2021 were on mission in the busiest US states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, California, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Police death toll comes at a time when the United States has been the scene of widespread protests against police actions in recent years due to discriminatory and unjust behavior, especially against people of color.
One year after Joe Biden’s presidency and the numerous domestic and international troubles plaguing his administration, US experts speak of the rampant increase in deadly armed violence as one of the country’s internal problems, CNN reported. They acknowledge that this kind of violence is out of control in the United States.
Violence with firearms has increased in the United States in recent months; A study by Strong Gun Laws Save Lives in 50 states shows that states between strict gun laws and those in They are lax, they have a direct relationship with the level of armed violence.
For example, the state of Mississippi, which has the weakest enforcement of gun laws, experienced the worst firearms violence in 2020, with 28 homicides in the 100,000-strong population. It happened with a firearm, but in the state of California, which has the strictest gun laws, only eight victims have been reported.
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