Tag: Freddie Gray

America is not hell, but neither is it paradise.

Fifty years later, police violence still happens every day; segregation, discrimination and stigmatization of black Americans are still systemic.

In order to keep serious social conflicts under control, Americans are putting more and more money into police departments. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is the wrong approach.

If this brave woman had not acted quickly and firmly, the wave of protests that had already begun in various cities of the country would have snowballed and today she would be paying the consequences for not having acted with celerity.

In its ruthless shutdown of the riots, the United States has added another brilliant stroke of the pen to its history of 'exceptionalism' in freedom of the press.