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Surreal Sci-fi Movie in New Selma-Milwaukee |
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The conspiracy theorists jumped out their seats when the news of the missing Milwaukee children broke as the Frank Jude verdict was about to be released. As if the whole thing were scripted for a major sci-fi motion picture, the events of this weekend were surreal. An entire city gripped in suspense as three white Milwaukee police officers, charged with beating a black man nearly to death, sat stoically waiting for their fate to be told by an all white jury. As small protests where being held outside of the Milwaukee Safety building, jurors kept asking to review evidence presented in the courtroom before making their decisions. And then, just hours before the verdict was to be handed down, "BREAKING NEWS" hit Milwaukee television screens as it was announced that someone discovered a body of a child in McGovern Park lagoon. The conspiracy theorists are coming forth saying that the discovery of the bodies found at McGovern Park was intended to draw attention from the Jude trial-that authorities knew where the bodies were all along. Wow! Talk about a great sci-fi movie plot. Early Saturday morning, Milwaukee is told that the two bodies found at the McGovern Park lagoon were the bodies of Purvis Virginia Parker and Quadrevion Henning. The merciless beating of Frank Jude by criminal cops ended with the all white jury acquitting the three white cops of charges, now this becomes a news story that must share equal billing with the discovery of the children's remains. The Black community is reeling from this shocking and most disturbing chain of events. Indeed, this whole story could have been written for the science fiction channel. If I were producer of the sci-fi channel, I would pay millions for this script. In the science fiction movie, conspiracy theorists would argue that authorities knew where the bodies of Purvis Virginia Parker and Quadrevion Henning were all along. In this sci-fi murder drama, cops and divers left the bodies at the lagoon, when the area was first searched weeks ago, because a major news story needed to be released at the time the Jude verdict was to be issued. The fix was in. The story of the missing children would serve as a distraction from the Jude verdict. The distraction would serve as a diversion aimed at displacing anger away from the Jude decision and bring confusion in the Black community. Does the Black community rally in anger against the criminal justice system? Does the Black community mourn the loss of two Black children? Here's a twist in the conspiracy theory sci-fi channel movie. The case of Wilbert Javier Prado, the Mexican national shot and killed by an African-American cop will soon be on the horizon. This case is sure to draw attention, because now on the heels of this unjust decision, people will be demanding justice, and guess who is next in line? You got it. Alfonzo Glover, the Black Milwaukee cop who murdered in cold blood an unarmed drunk "illegal Mexican immigrant." Rest your head on the fact that once this case starts to come into the public arena, there will be some who will come forward and say, if white cops can get away with beating a man half to death, surely, this cop should be freed from being held accountable for killing this "illegal immigrant." And what we have is once again, the conspiracy of misdirection taking hold of the real issue. Instead of focusing on the culture of violence and the blue code of silence by the cops against the people of Milwaukee, we will be duped into attacking each other. If I could do a bit of script editing myself, I would script this movie with the Black and Latino communities coming together to make a stand against the criminal justice system, and put an end to the abuse of power the police force levies against the non-white community. This sci-fi movie would close with the community transforming its mourning of the discovery of the two slain children, and the acquittal of the inhumane cops into an anger that erupts and shakes and brings down the house of injustice in New Selma-Milwaukee. • - This article was originally published in the "Taking Sides" column of the Milwaukee Spanish Journal. Miranda is a national award winning columnist, Latino community activist and Editor-in-Chief of the Milwaukee Spanish Journal. Email at: rmiranda@wi.rr.com >>More articles by Robert Miranda |