2939 Ellis
Berkeley
CA
A call to discuss a book, with an open Q and A
“Police Brutality”
An analysis of the culture of the local police in the US
By Steve Martinot
Police Brutality discusses the current police culture in America and how it affects our lives. Steve Martinot will discuss his book, followed by an open Q&A. Discussion will also be about current matters, such a the new community formed around objections to Elon Musk’s financial rioting; how Trump presents himself as having a “Royal Mind;” and the meaning of recent plainclothes arrests of immigrant residents and others.
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When a man runs away from police restraint (as in handcuffing) and the cop shoots him, we know that the cop has decided to shoot this person. He can say he did it against disobedience. But obedience is irrelevant to dead men.
The circularities of police reasoning:: arresting a person for resisting arrest.
A cop stops a motorist, a few words are spoken; and then the cop rips open the car door, pulls the driver out of the car and throws him on the street. Or is the cop arresting him for objecting to the cop? That would be police impunity. The cop is the law, and a law above the law. All this even happens in Berkeley (see the Copwatch documentary).
When a homeless person took a sandwich from a downtown store, the cops surrounded him and one fired his gun. He hit the guy in the jaw. That means he was aiming for his head, which means he intended to kill him – but missed.
Copies of Police Brutality will be available. .