Structural racism: It is bitter, if such incidents are down talking

Friday evening, Frankfurt's city centre: The sun's not down yet, but the weekend mood is already in the air. Small groups of young people in the city are on the road, sitting in the Taunusanlage, running in the direction of Opera place, which was two weeks ago, the scene of rioting, with five injured police officers and 39 arrested, the alleged rioters. Also, police in small groups on the road, the officers ask for Identification and control. Affected have already filed a complaint last weekend, it is, above all, people had been controlled migrant origin.

instead of Found so-called racial profiling? According to the "Black Lives Matter"demonstrations of the past weeks, after the debate, a study on structural racism within the police, according to the just in the state of Hesse raised questions about illegal data computers, queries from the Police in connection with the "NSU 2.0"-Drohschreiben the emotions ran high. What is the charges?

"This is not an accusation that is just right," says the Frankfurt police President Gerhard Bereswill. It was by no means so "that the police are controlled according to the skin color or origin, it would not be allowed." After the riots in July in which five police officers at the Frankfurt Opera, hurt place, and 39 suspected rioters detained had been, had examined the police with their checks, "whether one or the other appears, of the was and the we have on our video frames, to detect."

Updated Date: 03 August 2020, 08:20