The police in America are an occupation force in black neighbourhoods and treat poor people generally as scum who it is open season to kill, rape, torture and maim. The police force in America as elsewhere are the armed bodies of men whom Marx and Engels referred to as the capitalist state whose sole mission is to protect the property and rights of the super rich. They cannot be reformed. They have to be dismantled and replaced with community bodies that deal with crime which are democratically accountable to the communities they serve.
The Black Panthers were 100% per cent correct in their attitude towards the police - they are an occupying force that has to be confronted with mass civil disobedience. Police murder should be way up the political agenda. It sickens me the way they kill with impunity.
"I'm mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore!''.