Racist Terror Attack in Minneapolis

NOVEMBER 24—Last night, five Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters were shot by three masked race terrorists in Minneapolis. While the perpetrators fled, the cops attacked those trying to help the victims, including with pepper spray. One activist reported that a cop taunted protesters about the shooting: “This is what you asked for.” All five victims were hospitalized, including one shot in the stomach. Protesters have been demonstrating outside the Fourth Precinct police station in response to the cop killing earlier this month of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man. Activists have faced not only police repression and arrests but also repeated threats, including masked men at their rallies. Four days before the shooting, an online video was posted of a pair of white supremacists brandishing a pistol and threatening to turn up at the protests. The Minneapolis BLM has vowed that its rallies will continue.

Last night’s shooting highlights the racist terror and reaction that are integral to American capitalism. Such attacks are an auxiliary to the powerful murder apparatus of the capitalist state, the main source of racist violence. The race terrorists and fascist scum are emboldened by the daily terror meted out to black people and minorities by the thugs in blue. We seek to mobilize the multiracial working class in defense of the victims of racist terror and against every manifestation of racial oppression. Police terror will be finally done away with when the working class sweeps away the capitalist order through socialist revolution.