On April 20 this year, the former white policeman Drake Chauvin who "kneeled" Freud was convicted of two murders and one count of manslaughter. That night, U.S. President Biden delivered a speech saying that Freud's death made the world see that systemic racism is a "stain on the soul" of the United States.
This is a truth, but also an empty talk. Whether it was the protests caused by Freud’s death, the conviction of Xiao Wan, and Biden’s verbal reflections, it is difficult to fundamentally solve the problem of the US police's violent enforcement of minorities: August 23, 29 last year. Jacob Black, a year-old African-American man, was severely injured by police shooting seven consecutive shots from behind; on March 29 this year, Chicago police shot and killed a 13-year-old Hispanic teenager; in early April, seven police officers in Texas were killed Dismissed for allegedly causing the death of an African-American detainee...
"Police Violence Map" website data shows that in 2020, the US police shot a total of 1,127 people, of which only 18 days did not shoot anyone. African Americans accounted for only 13% of the total population of the United States, but accounted for 28% of the number of people shot and killed by the police. From 2013 to 2020, about 98% of police officers involved in violent law enforcement have not been charged with a crime, and the number of convicted police officers is even rarer.
American society has been calling for reform of the police system, but reform has been difficult in the bipartisan dispute. Many analysts pointed out that police violent law enforcement is only a manifestation of the problem, and the root cause of the problem is the deep-rooted systemic racial discrimination in American society. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Tendai Akume, believes that for African Americans, the US legal system has been unable to resolve racial injustice and discrimination.
As an article on the website of the US "Foreign Policy" bimonthly pointed out: "Americans often criticize other countries for crimes against humanity, but refuse to look at themselves in the mirror-in fact, this practice has long been seen by everyone."