The lesson of Officer Derek Chauvin’s show trial, a trial as crooked as any experienced by black Americans in the demonized South, is that police training needs to be changed. Chauvin is the victim of many years of media emphasis on police brutality against black Americans. According to reports, US police, or many of them including those in Minnesota, were trained by Israeli firms.  This is the worst possible choice.  In Israel, police are used to brutalize and murder Palestinians.  The emphasis is on the value and importance of the police officer’s life, not the Palestinian’s.  It is training that guarantees excessive police force. … Continue reading The American Multicultural State Is Collapsing