URGENT RELEVANCE OF OUR BOOK, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN

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.”

Our book, The Gunning Down of Michael Brown: An Afrocentric Response was published in 2014 and addresses precisely these issues. Our book is even more urgently relevant after 8 November 2016 with the consequent institutionalizing of white nationalism