U.S.A police killings reminiscent of lynching - UN (United Nations) group

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U.S. police killings reminiscent of lynching, U.N. group says

GENEVA (Reuters) - Police killings of black people in the United States are reminiscent of lynchings and the government must do far more to protect them, a United Nations working group says in a report that will be debated at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

Riot police are seen at Hwy 277 during a protest against the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. September 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Miczek

The hard-hitting criticism - drawing a comparison between modern police behavior and mob killings of blacks in the 19th and 20th centuries - comes at a time of renewed racial tension in the United States.

This week Charlotte, North Carolina, saw street riots over the shooting of a black man, Keith Scott, by a black police officer. On Friday, a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man turned herself into authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching,” said the report by the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

Most lynching victims died by hanging. A 2015 report by a non-profit organization, the Equal Justice Initiative, said 3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynchings” in a dozen southern states between 1877 and 1950.

The U.N. expert report was based on a visit to the United States in January by a five-member group chaired by Filipino law professor Ricardo A. Sunga III.

Since the visit, anger over police tactics has risen as their fatal encounters with African-Americans, many of them unarmed, have sparked protests and unrest across the country.
RACIAL LEGACY

Although the United States has made efforts at reform, the group said it remained “extremely concerned” about the human rights situation of African-Americans.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.

“Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Police killings go unpunished because initial investigations are usually conducted by the police department where the alleged perpetrator works, because prosecutors have wide discretion over presenting charges, and because the use of force is not subject to international standards, the experts’ group said.

They recommended the United States create a reliable national system to track killings and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, and end racial profiling, which is “a rampant practice and seriously damages the trust between African Americans and law enforcement officials”.

To improve race relations, education should be “accompanied by acts of reconciliation” to overcome bigotry and past injustices, while federal and state laws should recognize the negative impact of enslavement and racial injustice, the report added.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Good statement coming out of UN.

All Muslim, African, Asian, Latin American, and other independently minded nations should get behind it.

US should not point the finger at anyone unless it secures justice for its own minorities.

 

[Philip the Arab]

@Philip the Arab LMFAO "they were armed", they looked at me funny, they wore caps backwards, they had pearly white teeth - LOL anything to defend your white racist "police" from the international community's condemnation.

It's not just White police but whatever you say Snowflake.

 

[gambit]

Good statement coming out of UN.

All Muslim, African, Asian, Latin American, and other independently minded nations should get behind it.

US should not point the finger at anyone unless it secures justice for its own minorities.

Should? But they will not. Because they know that ultimately, the UN is wrong.

 

[Philip the Arab]

Should? But they will not. Because they know that ultimately, the UN is wrong.

Scope and Beijing are trying to demonize the US police because they are insecure about their own countries problems.

What do you think about the US police killings?

 

[Philip the Arab]

This is about white racist police brutality in the US regime. Stay on topic.

Gambit. The SDF crew were "reminiscing" about you the other day.

You are being racist towards Whites which is just as bad as Whites being racist towards Blacks, or other minorities.

Not all police are White, and not all police who shot Black people are White. Your racist stereotyping BS doesn't work with educated people which you clearly are not.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

You are being racist towards Whites which is just as bad as Whites being racist towards Blacks, or other minorities.

Not all police are White, and not all police who shot Black people are White. Your racist stereotyping BS doesn't work with educated people which you clearly are not.

Article from Sept 2016.That's why he didn't post the link.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...cent-of-lynching-u-n-group-says-idINL8N1BZ3CF

 

[phancong]

You are being racist towards Whites which is just as bad as Whites being racist towards Blacks, or other minorities.

Not all police are White, and not all police who shot Black people are White. Your racist stereotyping BS doesn't work with educated people which you clearly are not.

Have you ever read about police mistakenly spray hundred of bullets at a black man mistakenly for a black killer of the white cops?

 

[phancong]

Blacks killer will be shot first but white mass killers will always have the chance to surrender to the police and should be kill by the police as the last line of defend.

Many white mass killers were peacefully arrested by the white police but black run away from the white cops instantly be shot in the back and killed.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Malcolm X’s Dream coming to fruition.

Truth always triumphs over evil.

 

[gambit]

Scope and Beijing are trying to demonize the US police because they are insecure about their own countries problems.

That much is known.

What do you think about the US police killings?

It is terrible. But this issue is not new.

I have repeatedly ask this question and everyone avoided it: Show me a single police force in the world that do nothing if you do not obey orders.

If the officer orders you to show your hands. Do it. Whether he has probable cause or not, the street is not the place to challenge that probable cause. In most of these shootings, the victims, and I will call them that with no hesitation, did not obey to the letters. There were situations where the police was clearly at fault and I have no problems sending those officers to prison. But as far as the general idea go, just obey the officer's commands.

Gambit. The SDF crew were "reminiscing" about you the other day.

Am flattered. What did they talked about?

 

[phancong]

That much is known.


It is terrible. But this issue is not new.

I have repeatedly ask this question and everyone avoided it: Show me a single police force in the world that do nothing if you do not obey orders.

If the officer orders you to show your hands. Do it. Whether he has probable cause or not, the street is not the place to challenge that probable cause. In most of these shootings, the victims, and I will call them that with no hesitation, did not obey to the letters. There were situations where the police was clearly at fault and I have no problems sending those officers to prison. But as far as the general idea go, just obey the officer's commands.


Am flattered. What did they talked about?

The was a black man killed by the cops when he fully follow the police order even he was mention about his possession of a legal gun in his car, he was shot white he reached for his wallet to show the cop his ID.

The was a black man killed by the cops when he fully follow the police order even he was mention about his possession of a legal gun in his car, he was shot white he reached for his wallet to show the cop his ID.

He was shot and kill.with his pregnant girfriend in the car.

 

[gambit]

The was a black man killed by the cops when he fully follow the police order even he was mention about his possession of a legal gun in his car, he was shot white he reached for his wallet to show the cop his ID.

If the police officer ordered him to keep his hands in full sight, then sorry to say it, the victim was at fault. We can assign some blame to the police officer, but I have been stopped before because of a case of mistaken identity, and knew that the best behavior is to simply obey and if you have to move, do move slowly. I know you are desperate and hate the US, but try to get the details before you judge. But for you, it is useless anyway.

 

[phancong]

If the police officer ordered him to keep his hands in full sight, then sorry to say it, the victim was at fault. We can assign some blame to the police officer, but I have been stopped before because of a case of mistaken identity, and knew that the best behavior is to simply obey and if you have to move, do move slowly. I know you are desperate and hate the US, but try to get the details before you judge. But for you, it is useless anyway.

The cops ask for his ID, he reach for his wallet in his back pocket and get shot, no justification at all.

 

[gambit]

The cops ask for his ID, he reach for his wallet in his back pocket and get shot, no justification at all.

I do not know where you live as the forum's flag feature is next to worthless anyway. But if you do live in the US, you know that how you try to portray the US on this forum is -- nonsense. In the China that you cheer for, the cops may not have guns, but they are quicker to violence and more brutal when they do violence.