Germany: Racism allegations against the police for killing an African knife attacker
On Monday, police officers were called to a youth welfare facility in the north of Dortmund. A caregiver noticed that a 16-year-old youth who had only recently arrived at the facility had armed himself with a knife. Mohammed D. is also said to have been mentally disturbed. The alarmed police officers first tried to calm the Senegalese.
SPD allegedly criticizes with open questions
When the situation escalated, the eleven police officers tried in vain to incapacitate the youth with pepper spray and tasers. As he ran towards the police officers, knife in hand, one fired six shots from a submachine gun, five of which hit the attacker in the jaw, stomach and forearm. He died shortly afterwards in hospital.
"The case rightly raises many questions," said the Dortmund SPD state parliamentarians Anja Butsckau, Nadja Lüders, Volkan Baran and Ralf Stoltze in a joint statement. "In view of the great numerical superiority, was there really no other and milder way to avert the danger to one's own life?"
Greens appalled by "terrible act"
The spokeswoman for the Greens district association Heide Brenner and the Greens council group members Ingrid Reuter and Ulrich Langhorst were "deeply shocked and stunned" by the death of Mohammed D.: "We mourn with everyone who was close to him and had to witness this terrible act."
The green district mayor of Dortmund city center north, Hannah Rosenbaum, criticized the equipment of the officials. "In recent years we have experienced an increasing build-up of police forces in the north of the city," says a statement. “Various incidents and allegations of racism in the past” allegedly led to a loss of trust among “many migrant citizens”.
The Dortmund Greens MP Michael Röls also expressed his sympathy: "I am deeply shocked by the death of the young person last Monday. It is incredibly tragic that a young person who fled to Germany dies in a police operation." He, too, is "greatly worried that this operation could lead to a further loss of trust among people with non-white skin or people with a migration background".
The spokeswoman for the Greens district association Heide Brenner and the Greens council group members Ingrid Reuter and Ulrich Langhorst were "deeply shocked and stunned" by the death of Mohammed D.: "We mourn with everyone who was close to him and had to witness this terrible act."
The green district mayor of Dortmund city center north, Hannah Rosenbaum, criticized the equipment of the officials. "In recent years we have experienced an increasing build-up of police forces in the north of the city," says a statement. “Various incidents and allegations of racism in the past” allegedly led to a loss of trust among “many migrant citizens”.
The Dortmund Greens MP Michael Röls also expressed his sympathy: "I am deeply shocked by the death of the young person last Monday. It is incredibly tragic that a young person who fled to Germany dies in a police operation." He, too, is "greatly worried that this operation could lead to a further loss of trust among people with non-white skin or people with a migration background".
For the Left Party “that is racism”
The Left Party local politician Luigi Pantisano accused the police officers of racism on Twitter: "Yesterday in Dortmund, a total of eleven police officers were 'unable' to take a knife from a 16-year-old black boy. They allegedly felt so threatened that they killed him with five shots from a machine gun. That's called racism! #BlackLivesMatter”
Pantisano later corrected himself when others pointed out that the firearm used was only a submachine gun, but he added: "The many comments from the right-wing Twitter bubble are the best proof that my accusation is correct. If a 16-year-old black boy can't be stopped with a knife by eleven police officers other than being killed, that's racism."
The Left Party local politician Luigi Pantisano accused the police officers of racism on Twitter: "Yesterday in Dortmund, a total of eleven police officers were 'unable' to take a knife from a 16-year-old black boy. They allegedly felt so threatened that they killed him with five shots from a machine gun. That's called racism! #BlackLivesMatter”
Pantisano later corrected himself when others pointed out that the firearm used was only a submachine gun, but he added: "The many comments from the right-wing Twitter bubble are the best proof that my accusation is correct. If a 16-year-old black boy can't be stopped with a knife by eleven police officers other than being killed, that's racism."
Source: Junge Freiheit
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