Statement on the Ongoing Protests calling for an End to Police Brutality
PREAMBLE
As it was hard to miss, many major US cities have been quaking due to mass protests commenced in consequence to the heinous murder of an African-American citizen by a policeman. George Floyd, the citizen who was asphyxiated by policeman Derek Chauvin who knelt upon his neck for nine minutes until Floyd had deceased. Chauvin was backed by three colleagues, which didn't avoid a recording that led to a subsequent arrest a couple of days later. Floyd's death arrived only days after another unjustified murder of a US citizen of African-American origin—Ahmaud Arbery. Unlike Floyd, he was murdered by two citizens who made use of a “citizen's arrest”—a law that allowed them to arrest a criminal they encountered in flagranti. Still, they didn't choose to arrest him (he didn't commit a crime as he only snooped into the forefront of a construction site) but instead chased him until they finally shot him down. Both of them were arrested days after.
What both of these back-to-back murders had in common was the particular feature of their victims: They both were African-Americans, and both of them were murdered by white men. Whilst white US citizens are absolutely fatally shot more often than their African-American counterparts, they also make up a greater part of the overall population. Thus, we should execute a small calculation: