FRIDAY, OCT 7, 2016 02:30 PM EDT,
Ben Norton is a politics reporter and staff writer at Salon, published the piece,
Scathing U.N. report: “Structural
racism” endures in U.S., and the government has failed to protect
African-Americans’ rights
U.N. group condemns mass
incarceration, drug war, "human rights crisis" of police killings;
calls for reparations
(http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/scathing-u-n-report-structural-racism-endures-in-u-s-and-the-government-has-failed-to-protect-african-americans-rights/)
The report of which he speaks was
issued by The U.N. Working
Group of Experts on People of African Descent which visited the U.S. from January
19 to 29, 2016. Norton asserts that:
The
report criticized what it called “the epidemic of racial violence by the
police.” The U.N. group recommended “urgent action” on the issue, noting,
“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent
of the past racial terror of lynching.” ...............
The
U.N. group expressed deep concern “at the alarming levels of police brutality
and excessive use of lethal force by law enforcement officials, committed with
impunity against people of African descent in the United States.”
The
report cited the killings of unarmed black Americans such as Eric Garner,
Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and Laquan McDonald, and
noted that police officers have rarely “been held accountable for these crimes,
despite the evidence.”
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