Quelle est la loyauté des Robocops ?

Quelle est la loyauté des Robocops ?

Dans le grand débat sur la situation intérieure des USA autour des évènements d’Occupy et de la “militarisation” (ou plus exactement le re-“systémation” des USA), le comportement des policiers, – cops qu’on espère transformer en Robocops, – est un point particulièrement intéressant.

Russia Today consacre un texte à cette question, le 1er décembre 2011, notamment à partir de la participation d’un officier de police de Philadelophie aux manifestations d’Occupy Wall Street, à son arrestation et aux contacts qu’il a donc pu avoir avec certains de ses ex-collègues de la police de New York. L’impression qui en ressort est que la loyauté de ce que le maire de New York Bloomberg désigne comme son “armée personnelle” est loin d’être garantie. (La déclaration stupéfiante au New York Observer du maire de New York Bloomberg, qui semble finalement donner plus d’importance à New York qu’à Washington D.C. : «I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.»)

Voici l’essentiel du texte de Russia Today sur la loyauté des Robocops…

«Retired Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis became the game changer on November 17. Arrested while demonstrating with Occupy protesters on the streets of New York City, the 24-year veteran of the force was held in police custody for 11 hours and received one comment from a New York cop. “Nobody talked to me. This one individual later on told me that I had the testicles of an elephant,” says Ray Lewis. […]

»Although all of America’s police force is part of the 99 per cent, Captain Lewis says cops secretly supporting OWS face dire consequences by going public. “A tremendous fear of losing their job. Being disciplined, being fired and then what do they do? Everybody in the 99 per cent have that fear and police officers also. They have children, they have wives. What would they do if they were fired? There are no jobs available,” Lewis says.

»The arrests of dozens of journalists covering the story at the Zuccotti Park are among many reasons Captain Lewis says he temporarily transplanted to Manhattan. “That’s close to a dictatorship. When you exclude the media, that’s what dictators from all over the world do and that is very scary,” he says.

»Despite his arrest, Captain Lewis is back at Zuccotti Park, showing unwavering support for the Occupy movement, standing nearby a group of New York City police officers. They are here securing the area, but some are beginning to show a little interest. “For the first time, I had an officer break ranks at the barricade line. A white officer named Officer Murray. He introduced himself and he started asking me a few questions and I asked ‘Do you know the risk you’re taking?’ He was so brave that he said, ‘Hey this is still America and until a supervisor orders me back to the line, I’m going to talk with you.’” “I hope to get mainstream America involved, the police involved. Realizing we’re all victims of corporate America and that corporate America has got to be stopped,” Lewis says.

»Oakland police Officer Fred Shavies is the only active cop who has gone on record with his support. “I totally agree with Occupy Wall Street. Even to an extent with Occupy Oakland. I am a part of the 99 per cent. For the most part people are peaceful and they want to see change,” Shavies says. […]

»Many in the US believe the biggest change, what the protesters across the country are demanding, could come when or if law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it.»

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