Leder efter motiv for politidrab

Situationen efter politidrabene i Baton Rouge minder om reaktionen på Nice-terroren: Myndighederne siger de leder efter et motiv.

Når politiet selv slår fast at Gavin Long var ude efter at dræbe flest mulig politifolk virker det meningsløst at lede på motivet.

“Our preliminary investigation shows that he definitely ambushed those officers,” Lt. J.B. Slaton, a public affairs commander for the Louisiana State Police, said in a phone interview Monday morning. “We are still trying to find out what his motive was, and that’s going to be part of our investigation. But we believe he was targeting those officers.”

Den politiske korrekthed har ædt sig ind på politiets vurderingsevne. Man må ikke se eller sige det alle ser: Det kaldes the war on cops. Er det fordi det er politisk følsomt at skulle definere hvor den kommer fra og hvem der inspirerer til den?

“There was no doubt in my mind” that Mr. Long had intended to kill the officers, Colonel Edmonson said on CNN. Lieutenant Slaton said Mr. Long had been positively identified with the use of fingerprint records.

As investigators worked, details about Mr. Long, 29, of Kansas City, Mo., began to emerge. Like the gunman who killed five police officers more than a week ago in Dallas, Mr. Long had served abroad in the military.

USA har på kort tid oplevet at to af landets egne soldater vender våbnene mod opretholdere af lov og orden. Det er et alvorlig tegn på indre krise.

Det siges fra officielt hold at man ikke skal lade sig splitte av drabene, men holde sammen. Det er klart tom snak. USA er splittet. Ville det ikke have været bedre at erkende det, og begynde derfra?

CNN har flere interessante oplysninger som fortæller om Longs motiv: Han bekendte sig til radikale sorte organisationer som i varierende grad er mod det officielle USA, mod den hvide mand og jøder og mener de har ret til at tage loven i egne hænder. Det er et revolutionært, subversivt perspektiv som medierne ikke har vanskelig ved at genkende, når der er tale om hvide højreekstreme. Men når der er tale om sorrte er de pludselig i ukendt terræn. Det samme kompas virker ikke.

Long mentions the July 4 holiday as a celebration of an uprisings against oppressive forces, and without mentioning Micah Xavier Johnson — the Dallas shooter — by name, he questions why some violent actions are perceived as criminal while others are celebrated.

A video posted two days earlier is a bit more cryptic, but makes more sense in the aftermath of his shooting rampage.

“I just wanted to let y’all know, don’t affiliate me with nothing,” he says. He says he wanted people to know that his actions were his alone.

He then goes on to list organizations he may be affiliated with — including the Nation of Islam (which he says he was a member of), Floyd Mayweather’s The Money Team (he’s wearing their hat) and terror groups like ISIS.

Nation of Islam og IS, det er en politisk cocktail som byder på problemer, dvs. for etablerede medier giver det ingen mening. At militante sorte lader sig inspirere af IS overrasker ikke: IS er den største trussel mod USA, for den som ønsker at “bring USA down” er det logisk at sympatisere med IS.

Det finnes en sær organisasjon for sorte som heder Washitaw Nation. Den hævder at repræsentere sorte som kom til Amerika før slavehandelen, sådan at de blev oprindelig indfødte.

After he was killed, investigators found a card on Long’s body suggesting he was a member of the Washitaw Nation, according to two law enforcement officials.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Washitaw Nation “as a sovereign tribe descended from pre-Columbian blacks who settled in North America.”

Long legally changed his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra in May 2015, claiming that he was “seeking to correct” his name, because he was part of the indigenous society, United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundvah Mu’er nation.

Gruppen forsøger at hente sin legitimitet fra en slags naturretstænkning: Hvis de kan bevise at de var i USA før den hvide mand har de retten på deres side.

The Washitaw Moorish Nation is a U.S. separatist group
It describes itself as a sovereign tribe descended from pre-Columbian blacks who settled in North America,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Many who claim membership to the Washitaw Nation say it exempts them from federal and state government jurisdiction, attempting to use laws that were made for Native Americans for their own ends
Law enforcement says the group sells fake drivers license and birth certificates

Source: Souther Poverty Law Center

Der er endnu en tråd i Longs radikalisme: Han troede at myndighederne er i gang med fjernstyring af folks hjerner.

Long followed several conspiracy groups devoted to government surveillance and monitoring. An email address linked to him showed that he was a member of a support group in an organization called Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance.

The group’s mission is to help those “marginalized and abused by … remote brain experimentation, remote neural monitoring of an entire humans body.”

On that site he’s identified as a “Buddy” representing other “targets” of government surveillance.

Flere attentatmænd har haft sådanne forestillinger, blandt andet manden som gik amok på et marineværft i Washington for et par år siden. Nogen vil se sådanne forestillinger som tegn på psykiatriske problemer, men ideerne flyder rundt og deles på nett, de bliver en type rygter som ubefæstede sjæle er modtagelige for.

Det interessante er at CNN ikke er i stand til at sætte oplysningerne sammen til en meningsfuld kontekst. Det havde de klart hvis det var en hvid højreekstremist. Når nogen af de samme detaljer dukker op hos sorte militante, mister de tråden. Der opstår en form for politisk loyalitet som ser ud til at lamme de analytiske evner.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/18/us/who-is-gavin-long/