America the Snuff Film

Spring is in the air and police bullets, always perennials never seasonal, are flying and landing on their intended targets: Black bodies.

A harrowing ten days for Black people as we witnessed the absurdity of the trial of policeman and murderer Derek Chauvin for the horrific murder of Mr. George Floyd.

As many have said, people are watching the trial of a man who murdered a man on film that has been broadcast around the world nonstop since it happened.

Policeman Chauvin’s murder was so obscene and ghastly, many Black people cannot watch the trial due to the lingering trauma of seeing yet another Black man lynched on television — America’s longest running police procedural show.

After one week of that highest rated show, a new murder happened and a new show began, again set in Minnesota. Policewoman Kim Potter murdered Daunte Wright, a twenty year old mixed race Black man.

Kim Potter’s script was copied from so many others: a nonsensical traffic stop — his new car did not have tags and he dared have one of those green air fresheners dangling from his rear view mirror.

The horror.

Never mind tags were delayed by 2–3 months (Thanks, Mr. DeJoy!) and the cops knew that fact according to disgraced imbecile Chief of police Tim Gannon, but conveniently…