I was just shown these videos today during SEAC (Southeast Asian Collective) and seriously, it pissed me the fuck off. Pigs (police) piss me the fuck off in general, but seriously, emerging new material of blatant police brutality piss me off to no end.
Basically, what happened was that Phuong Ho, a 20 year-old exchange student from Việt Nam, got into a scuffle with his roommate who called the cops on him, resulting in Phuong getting beat with batons and tasered while handcuffed face-first on the floor with a cop sitting on him. Motherfuckers.
The first video is the actual documentation of the crime, while the second video is Phuong Ho's testimony.
In the second video, in which Phuong describes what happened, he says that while he bent over to pick up his glasses, after asking the cop for permission they took a night stick to his back. What a bunch of fucking cowards. The man was bent the fuck over you assholes. The interview is on point to a large degree. If you're getting the shit kicked out of you, in a tiny ass hallway, it's goddamn near impossible to comply to every command on whim. It's a fucking cruel Catch 22 because the pigs are beating his ass for 'resisting arrest' but he can't comply because they're beating his ass, handcuffed on the fucking floor in a cramped corridor.
There is absolutely no excuse for pigs being given the ability to use any force - especially force to this degree on anyone.
What's even more sickening is that the police department claims this couldn't possibly be a race related crime because "In addition to the fact that we have a number of Vietnamese officers who actually are a part of our department. If anything, we're trying to do more recruiting from within that community." (San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis). Fucking pigs ass motherfuckers. I am so pissed. Way to fucking objectify token people of color you asshole. And trying to recruit more from the community?! Those are just recycled colonialist tactics to divide the community and to create inter-community conflict! Bullshit! These are the same tactics that the French colonialists used against the Vietnamese because there's no better way to split a community than to turn its members on each other and giving some members special badges and uniforms is a sure way to destroy any trust in the community.
The fact is, people of color communities are fucking hounded on by the pigs. No doubt. But what must be learned is that we cannot rely on the justice system because it's fucking reactionary at best. Justice is hardly ever 'served' by the State to victims - look at Rodney King or Trinh Ly. The justice system has failed the people time and time again. And even if they do 'fire' a cop (which means they just move the fucker to another city), this happens in retrospect of the crime and the justice system does nothing to address the root problems that cause these crimes in the first place - the very existence of a uniformed, badged, and armed pigs. The only real justice is getting the pigs off the fucking block and letting communities solve their own shit.
We don't need any colonialist pigs terrorizing communities. If the government wants to address issues of 'crime' then address poverty and all the intricacies of it. If the government wants to address the 'drug' problem then address the oppressive nature of global capitalism that fuels drug production in Third World nations. The government makes as killing off of 'crime' and 'drugs'. They are invested in it. They aren't invested in solving these issues. They aren't invested in the community. Look at the expanding prison industrial complex - more than three times more money is spent on building jails than on education in California and despite a budget crisis, police presence never decreases in communities, and if anything, it increases because the State makes money off of the crimes the police 'reports'.
I don't care what color you are, the fact that these atrocious crimes happen on a daily basis is more than enough reason to get the pigs off the block. If the justice system fails us, it's our duty to take it upon ourselves to defend the community - we absolutely cannot allow the State to continue its unabashed use of violence and terror against our communities. If they don't respond to non-violence, then speak in the only language left that they'll heed: self-defense by the use of any means necessary, force or otherwise.
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