Officers fired twenty times. There are just no words that can express the gut-wrenching loss that the family of Stephon Clark must feel having their son taken out by Sacramento police officers
, right in the family’s backyard. The officers fired twenty times with no warning.
If you can, watch the video of his grandmother explaining what she heard and saw. They just released body camera and helicopter footage showing the execution of this young man. This is police terrorism. This is also counterinsurgency.
This is colonialism. “Colonialism is not a thinking machine endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, “ wrote the great Franz Fanon about the courageous Algerian people’s struggle to overturn French colonialism in The Wretched of the Earth.
I have learned from the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement that African people in the U.S. are a colonial population which the APSP is actively struggling to overturn. I agree that we have to pick a side. I pick white solidarity with Black Power.
Wendy Lea Writing 