The Trump administration is attempting to carry out a coup against the Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship based on the military and the police.
Trump’s calls for police violence and repression have been a common theme throughout his administration. Trump views the police as a potential power base for a dictatorial and fascistic regime.
In scenes repeated across the country, youth and workers were clubbed, gassed and attacked with rubber bullets by police.
The World Socialist Web Site first published this statement on October 14, 2019. It warned that “Trump is utilizing the power of the presidency to create an unconstitutional and illegal dictatorship.” In light of the recent nationwide military/police crackdown, the WSWS is republishing this crucial document.
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An investigative report by the Detroit Free Press, based on leaked documents and interviews, shows that the Detroit Police Department has been gathering online information and tracking the activity of people who participated in protests against the Gaza genocide.
Each of 1,380 plaintiffs will receive about $10,000 for claims of abuse and illegal arrest.
The killing of Michael Reinoehl by a US Marshals task force on September 3, 2020 was a state-sanctioned execution, which had the support of then-President Donald Trump, his Attorney General William Barr and the US Justice Department.
The executive order, endorsed by the largest police organizationsin the country, will do nothing to stop unending police killings, but does expand “resources” to cops.
The details of Locke’s killing and the conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and city government in its aftermath point to a clear effort at a cover-up and subsequent whitewash.
The officers who failed to intervene and stop Derek Chauvin from murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, were found guilty by a jury of violating federal civil rights laws.
The twelve-person jury in the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers began deliberations on Wednesday.
The federal civil rights trial began on Monday of the three officers who assisted Derek Chauvin as he killed George Floyd in front of bystanders in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
The former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck and killed him on May 25, 2020, pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in order to avoid a likely life sentence.
Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass announced the abandonment of efforts to push through the George Floyd Act, in the face of predictable Republican opposition and White House indifference.
Assistant district attorneys have submitted a request to the judge overseeing the case to admit additional evidence that the shooter is associated with the violent white supremacist group the Proud Boys.
Hennepin County Court Judge Cahill imposed a sentence on Chauvin that was greater than the minimum required by state guidelines but less than that requested by the prosecution and Floyd’s family.
On Monday, a federal judge dismissed lawsuits alleging former president Donald Trump directed police to violate the constitutional rights of peaceful protesters who were violently attacked in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020.
The driver, 35-year-old Nicholas David Kraus from neighboring St. Paul, was arrested and is being held without bail on a charge of vehicular manslaughter.
The report, which was hailed by Trump, claims that the US Park Police decided to clear Lafayette Park in order to install security fencing around the White House without the knowledge of Trump or direction from him.
The military used its deployment to long-term care homes overwhelmed by the pandemic to spy on and test out methods of repression against the Canadian population.
The fatal shooting of Winston Smith last week bears a similar resemblance to the assassination of Michael Reinoehl in September of last year when a US Marshals federal task force surrounded him and opened fire without warning or trying to arrest him.
The continued prevalence of police violence in the United States one year after the global protests sparked by Floyd’s murder makes clear that it is, at its root, a class question and not a racial question.
Two new indictments were brought by a federal grand jury against the four former Minneapolis cops who murdered George Floyd last year, the second of which involves a brutal assault by Derrick Chauvin on a teenager in 2017.
The congresswoman from Florida and former Orlando chief of police said cops have to make tough “split-second decisions” and that Nicholas Reardon “responded as he was trained to do.”
