Turns Out Oil Companies Are Funding Trump’s Secret Police

So, there was shock of seeing secret police without any kind of identifying markers other than the generic word “POLICE” on their uniforms. That much seems good, at least.              

However, the Guardian just discovered that this new and menacing police force is actually funded in part by the big oil corporations.              

What a shock, eh?              

In a recent article just published by Guardian, Nina Lakhani Wrote:     

"Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation."       

Some of the major oil companies that fund Trump’s secret police force include Chevron, Shell, and Marathon Petroleum, which is actually the largest oil refining corporation in the entire country.              

Since one of the areas that Black Lives Matter (BLM) tries to address, among other things, is environmental justice and trying to make more Americans aware of the loophole legal culture that often makes negligent behavior on the part of corporations.              

Again, here is a snippet from Lakhani’s article:
       

“Black Lives Matter is about environmental justice, economic justice, racial justice, and about stamping out racism in the criminal justice system,” said Robert Bullard, co-chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. 

BLM has brought the issue of possibly defunding police forces across the country into the political discussions in recent weeks, following a wave of protests and riots in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. That, and their largely newfound emphasis on greater environmental equality, has not surprisingly garnered some considerable attention from both police forces across the country, as well as those who profit from manipulating the precious and limited national resources.





Below is the link to the article used in writing this blog entry, and from which I took the quotes used above:

Revealed: oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities by Nina Lakhani in New York, 27 Jul 2020:
Investigation portrays fossil fuel industry as common enemy in struggle for racial and environmental justice in America


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/fossil-fuels-oil-gas-industry-police-foundations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR3I6A_I1A8W5p7caf_ChqcJcVtaiiZ_aMnXtiW16fEouIAgTkcUy4ZpoAs