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I've just never been able to get my head around why a city police force would bomb its own city.
Not racist but in Luxembourg serving members of the police carried out a campaign of bombings and blackmail, also in 1985. 5 officers were only recently (2019) indicted for it alongside 3 or 4 investigators who helped them cover it up after the fact.
If you combine lack of strong oversight with people who have power, you frequently end up with some very messed up results.
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Blimey, that's a wild story. I'm not going to link to sites here, because there are a few that tell masive conspiracy stories that I'm not sure are credible.
Obviously, the pattern of simulating some kind of external danger in order to pursue other interests, often to justify the use of repressive force, isn't exactly new. The worst incident is undoubtedly the Reichstagsbrand, but agents provocateurs have been used so often in smaller ways. Still, the incidents in Philadelphia, and especially the child-murdering bombings are one of the worst examples I've seen.
Oliver Schick
This is worth posting. The MOVE bombing in Philadelphia in 1985 was without a doubt one of the most horrific racist crimes in the US. I only heard about it a few years ago when one of the original members of Move was released from prison. There will still be so much that's been swept under the carpet.
I've just never been able to get my head around why a city police force would bomb its own city. It's completely insane.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/philadelphia-1985-move-bombing-apology
The Philadelphia City Council's resolution is worth reading in full. The article annoyingly links to a T****** thread to which it's only attached as image files, but I don't think it's been published on the Philadelphia City Council's web-site yet, or at least I couldn't find it there.
Trying whether Nitter links work for people--this instance has been stable for a while (get Invidition if you want to install it in your browser to automatically redirect YouTube and T****** links):
https://nitter.snopyta.org/CouncilmemberJG/status/1326936274037575680
Individual pages:
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5VueWEAAfQaG.jpg
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5WzDWEAAx-zy.jpg
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5Xx8XYAAm-q5.jpg
Still, it's worth bearing in mind the following. As the Philadelphia Inquirer notes:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/move-bombing-apology-philadelphia-walter-wallace-20201112.html
All this dealing with the past is not to forget that in the recent present the fatal shooting by police of Walter Wallace happened nearly two weeks ago:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/live/philadelphia-police-shooting-walter-wallace-jr-protests-curfew-body-cam-national-guard-20201030.html
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/defund-the-police-philadelphia-walter-wallace-killing-20201102.html
It seems similar to the death of Benjamin Zephaniah's cousin Mikey Powell in 2003. There, too, the family called the police and the police killed him, probably in the process of brutally restraining him, although there was no gun involved.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/aug/05/comment.race
To me, the worst aspect of this is that the previous time the police had been called, they'd been very good and that's why they were called again.
(This was written in 2006.)