Fuerzas reaccionarias se están uniendo para permitir violencia policial y socavar la rendición de cuentas que se ha logrado tras una ardua lucha. Las autoridades de Minnesota ahora piden calma si Trump decide indultar a Derek Chauvin, el asesino condenado de George Floyd.

La idea de un indulto federal para Chauvin, cuya condena solo se logró después de que millones de personas inundaron las calles en 2020, sería escupirle en la cara del movimiento que obligó un ajuste de cuentas con los crímenes policiales. Todos quienes defienden la justicia y creen que las vidas negras importan deben estar alerta. Si esto sucede, este indulto debe ser enfrentado con resistencia masiva.

La reciente orden ejecutiva de Trump titulada “Fortaleciendo y Liberando a la Policía de Estados Unidos” busca eliminar la supervisión policial, proteger a policías asesinos con mayor inmunidad y defensa, y empoderar al Departamento de Justicia para perseguir y atacar a funcionarios locales que intenten limitar los abusos policiales.

La jueza de Milwaukee, Hannah Dugan, y el alcalde de Newark, Ras Baraka, ya han sido arrestados por oponerse a los ataques de Trump contra inmigrantes – y las colaboraciones entre ICE y la policía siguen aumentando, desafiando medidas de santuario locales.

Por eso debemos movilizarnos. El 25 de mayo, en el quinto aniversario del asesinato de George Floyd, la Alianza Nacional Contra la Represión Racista y Política y sus aliados saldrán a las calles en un día de acción para exigir: “¡Justicia para George Floyd y todas las víctimas del terror policial! ¡Revoquen la orden ejecutiva de Trump sobre el Estado policial y carcelero! ¡Aprueben la Ley de Justicia Policial de George Floyd! ¡Control comunitario de la policía ahora!

Aunque el gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, afirma que la condena estatal seguirá vigente, un indulto federal representaría un respaldo inaceptable a la brutalidad policial. Sería un mensaje claro a policías racistas y asesinos que ellos estarán protegidos. Este mensaje resuena en la orden ejecutiva de Trump, que está diseñada para intensificar y expandir la violencia policial y carcelaria. También asigna decenas de miles de agentes adicionales para cumplir las operaciones y detenciones de ICE que están separando a familias.

La rebelión del 2020, y la reacción contra ella, demostraron nuestro poder. Para derrotar la agenda de Trump, necesitamos un movimiento que una a todos los que puedan ser unidos, y que esté listo para alzarse y luchar. Si los rumores del indulto se vuelven realidad, encuéntranos en las calles. Únanse al llamado a acción de la Alianza Nacional el 25 de mayo.

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Reactionary forces are rallying to enable police violence and to undermine the accountability that has been hard won through struggle. Minnesota authorities are now appealing for calm if Trump decides to pardon Derek Chauvin, the convicted murderer of George Floyd.

The idea of a federal pardon for Chauvin, whose conviction was only secured after millions flooded the streets in 2020, would spit in the face of the movement that forced a reckoning with police crimes. All those who stand for justice and believe Black lives matter should be on alert. If it happens, this pardon must be met with mass resistance.

Trump’s recent executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement” aims to strip away police oversight, shield killer cops with expanded immunity and defense, and empower the Department of Justice to target and attack local officials who attempt to limit police abuses.

Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka have already been arrested for standing against Trump’s attacks on immigrants – and ICE collaborations with police continue to escalate, in defiance of local sanctuary measures.

This is why we must mobilize. On May 25, the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and its allies will take to the streets for a day of action demanding: “ Justice for George Floyd and all victims of police terror! Rescind Trump’s police and prison state executive order! Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act! Community control of the police now!”

While Minnesota Governor Tim Walz claims the state conviction will still stand, a federal pardon would represent an unacceptable endorsement of police brutality. It would be a clear message to racist killer cops saying they will be protected. This message reverberates in Trump’s executive order, which is designed to escalate and expand the violence of police and prisons. It also deputizes tens of thousands of additional officers to enforce the ICE operations and detainments that are tearing families apart.

The 2020 rebellion, and the reaction against it, proves our power. To defeat Trump’s agenda, we need a movement that unites all who can be united, and is ready to stand up and fight back. If the pardon rumors become reality, meet us in the streets. Join up with the National Alliance’s call to action on May 25.

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Tampa, Fl – On May 25, students and community members of Tampa Bay rallied to demand Derek Chauvin receive maximum sentencing for his murder of George Floyd. The protest was held by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as a part of a national day of action to demand Chauvin get the sentencing appropriate for his crime.

Eithne Silva, member of SDS, stated, “We participated in this national day of action to demand that Derek Chauvin get a maximum sentence for the murder of George Floyd and that the other police officers who stood by and watched the murder get jailed for their complicity.”

The event was held in preparation for the sentencing of Chauvin, which is said to be sometime in June. There are multiple dates that have been presented for Chauvin’s sentencing, but the most recent one is said to be on June 16.

“The sentencing is being dragged out because the police hope that the people will forget so Chauvin can get a light sentence, so it's all the more important for us to continue having protests to put pressure on the police and the court to get true justice,” Silva stated.

Protesters also highlighted the fact that the chokehold that Chauvin used on Floyd is a common tactic of Israeli soldiers against Palestinians. Chauvin and other police officers often learn Zionist soldier tactics through conferences held in the U.S. or by traveling directly to occupied Palestine. Protesters demonstrated international solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine through chanting, “From Palestine to Chicago, occupation has got to go!”

The event also had community members who spoke about local cases of police crimes in Tampa.

Will Blake, member of Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC) stated, “After numerous cases of police brutality, misconduct, and murders, our local officials like the mayor and state attorney have shown that they have no interest in holding officers accountable. This is why we need community control of the police, because our officials and police do not at all represent the Black, brown and working people of this city.”

SDS will continue to call for justice for George Floyd and all victims of police brutality. If the courts attempt to give Chauvin a light sentence, SDS will demand that he receives the sentence he deserves.

Silva stated, “It’s important for us to reiterate the people's demand for community control of the police and our own demand to defund our university police.”

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Jacksonville FL – On April 21, the Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC) organized a rally, uniting with the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression call for protests to respond to the Chauvin trial and to demand justice for the countless number of victims of police crimes in Jacksonville and throughout the country.

Jacksonville is one of the many cities that have been plagued with countless murders at the hand of law enforcement.

The day after the guilty verdict, over a 100 people gathered in front of the Duval County Courthouse to demand justice for victims of police crimes. Christina Kittle, an organizer with JCAC, reiterated to the crowd that even with the Chauvin guilty verdict, we still must keep up the fight. She also shared the importance of community control of the police. Charity Baker, the mother of Leah Baker, a 28-year-old woman who was brutally shot and killed by JSO officers, spoke to the crowd and shared her daughter’s story. She also reminded the crowd that the fight for accountability wouldn’t be as prominent without the voice of the people.

The importance of the voice of the people was reiterated throughout the rally. The crowd chanted “The people united, will never be defeated.” Monique Sampson, another organizer with JCAC, emphasized to the crowd that “George Floyd sparked an entire movement. His death was not in vain. The guilty verdict wasn’t the result of the jury being the jury, it was the result of the peoples movement taking the street and changing the tide all over this country and all over the world.”

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Tears of joy and cries of justice spread from the family of George Floyd in the Minneapolis courtroom to people across the country and around world upon hearing the news that Floyd’s killer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on all counts of murder.

This rare event, that a police officer was charged and convicted of murder, was a result of the millions upon millions of people who took to the streets following the killing of George Floyd. The prosecutors did their job, but not from a commitment to justice. They were afraid of the anger of the righteous masses who burned down the police station and confronted police last May. The armored vehicles, barricades, and National Guard troops showed the fear and weakness, not the strength, of the system.

Even as Derek Chauvin was on trial, we heard of the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota as he tried to drive away. We saw the video of the police killing of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old who turned with his empty hands up right before being shot down in Chicago. For almost 100 years, racist vigilantes, many of them local police or sheriffs, put on their hoods and sheets to lynch African Americans to enforce a system of Jim Crow segregation. Jim Crow is gone, but the system of national oppression – the economic inequality, de facto segregation in housing, separate and unequal schools, lack of political rights, and police terror remain.

We of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization understand that at the root of national oppression is the system of monopoly capitalism where a handful of billionaires dominate the economic and political life of this country.

The United States was founded on the genocide and theft of the lands of Native Americans. The slave trade and southern slave plantations sucked the blood, sweat and tears of millions of Africans, creating both a new African American people and profits for Wall Street.

After the Civil War, the Rockefellers and other robber barons, who monopolized the oil, steel and other new industries, preyed upon immigrant workers from Europe to enrich themselves and the financiers of Wall Street. They unleashed the police and militias, now the National Guard, on striking workers, to try to crush their efforts to fight back. When federal troops we taken out of the South after reconstruction, the white planter class regained power – while the departed troops and state militias were used to suppress workers in the North.

The rollback of the post-Civil War reconstruction led to the formation of an African American nation in the Black Belt South. Around the same time Mexicans in the Southwest were forged into a new Chicano nation. And as the U.S. monopoly capitalists joined the race for colonies by European and Japanese imperialist nations, it overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii and brought into being another oppressed nation in our borders, the Hawaiian nation. We uphold the right to self-determination, up to and including political secession for oppressed nations in the United States.

The FRSO believes that an alliance of African Americans, native Americans, and other oppressed nationalities such as Chicanos, Latinos, Asian and Arab Americans, as well as other indigenous peoples such as native Hawaiians and Alaskan natives on one hand, with the multinational working class on the other, is needed. This strategic alliance will be at the center of a broad united front to topple the system of monopoly capitalism and bring about socialism.

But we can only win this fight by struggling side by side with all those who fight for justice, including the families of those taken from us by police crimes, and those fighting for community control of police. We unite with those fighting deportations and the incarceration of Central American children at the border – we support Legalization for All! We fight with Asian American communities being hit by a wave of racist violence; with workers on strike, fighting for a living wages and safe working conditions; with the unemployed and urban poor, with women, with queer and trans people, with students, with Arab Americans and Native Americans. And we fight in solidarity with countries, nations and peoples around the world who are struggling to be free of U.S. economic, political and military domination.

We fight for justice for all, we fight for socialism.

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Minneapolis, MN – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Student Union held a protest on the University of Minnesota campus, April 17, to demand justice for Daunte Wright, to call for community control of the campus police (UMPD), and to speak out against the recent deployment of the UMPD to brutalize protesters in Brooklyn Center. About 1000 students were in attendance, marking the largest on-campus demonstration in recent history. Speakers included students and community members who have experienced brutality at the hands of the National Guard this week while out in the streets demanding justice for Daunte Wright.

Camille Winston of the Black Student Union condemned the university’s response to the murder of Daunte Wright, saying “University President Joan Gabel and Chief Clark [UMPD police chief] decided to support the police who shot and killed him.” SDS member Nadia Shaarawi said, “Joan Gabel has more of a commitment to a police contract than she ever has had to her students.”

Since the murder of George Floyd last May, SDS has been calling for more police accountability on campus and has faced continued resistance from administration. The recent deployment of UMPD in riot gear to Brooklyn Center shows the need for students, workers and community members to be able to control their campus police force. SDS is campaigning for a Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) to win this power for the university community.

Jae Yates, a recent U of MN graduate and a member of the Twin Cities Coalition 4 Justice for Jamar, addressed the crowd, saying, “Daunte Wright could have come here. Daunte Wright was 20 years old. He was the same age as so many people who go to this university.”

Students who saw themselves or their peers in Daunte Wright’s story took the streets surrounding campus to shout his name and to demand justice for all stolen lives.

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The evening protest will include speakers with analysis of the day’s and week’s events. There will be a march – no matter how many streets the city tries to close off.

“We will assert our First Amendment rights,” say protest organizers.

The coalition demands are as follows: -- Convict Derek Chauvin and his co-killers of the highest possible charges and give them the longest possible sentence. -- Justice for George Floyd and all stolen lives – convict all killer cops. -- MN legislature must pass the nine police reform bills. And the people need community control of the police (CPAC). -- Drop the charges against the summer protesters, the November MN-646 and the recent Brooklyn Center arrestees. -- End Operation Safety Net! The crimes committed against our people by these goon squads have gone too far. They must be stopped.

Groups supporting the protest include: Anti-War Committee, Bikers Riding Against Police Brutality (BRAPB), Black Lives Matter MN, CAIR-MN, Climate Justice Committee, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Twin Cities, Good Trouble for Justice, Locks for Loved Ones, MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee, MN Uprising Arrestee Support, MN Workers United, MN Youth for Justice, NAACP – Minneapolis, National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, Native Lives Matter, On Site Public Media, Racial Justice Network, Student Movement Activists at South High (SMASH), Students for Democratic Society at UMN, Twin Cities Coalition 4 Justice 4 Jamar, Women Against Military Madness (WAMM).

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