For instance, in January, Erin Forbes was shot in the heart by Lower Merion police as he returned home from his night job. He was surrounded by at least five fully-armed officers, yet the police story was that he threatened them with a stick. There is a national epidemic of police violence. It has escalated with the CIA-linked, influx of drugs into many areas in an attempt to poison the youth. Many of the victims of police brutality have committed no crimes, but are attacked because they are Black, Latino, poor or young.
Millions are victims of racial harassment and discrimination.
African Americans continue to feel the full weight of racist US capitalism upon their backs. The rage that rises up in all black Americans and all racial minorities against their conditions is met with the repression of the racist police force and the legal system. Increasingly, in African American and Latino communities, people fear the police more than the criminals. This is directly due to the repressive actions of the police themselves, who are getting away with murder - literally. But they do not act on their own.