US killing blacks on epidemic scale: Analyst
Police officers forcibly detain a demonstrator protesting police brutality against the black people in the US city of Ferguson, November 28, 2014. Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:9PM GMT A political commentator says US police are killing members of the African-American community on an epidemic scale, Press TV reports. People’s Power Assembly organizer Imani Henry said in an interview from New York that police officers are brutalizing and killing blacks on an almost daily basis. “We have an epidemic proportion of black people being murdered at a rate of one in every 28 hours,” Henry said. The analyst said that a recent jury decision on the shooting death of a black teenager in Ferguson shows that current laws in the country support a racist trend. He also noted that protest rallies against US police brutality were spreading to several American states as well as other countries. “There have been over 170 demonstrations in the US and Canada over the last two days,” he said. Protesters took to the streets across the United States and some other countries after a jury decided not to indict a white police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9. Henry said that a large number of Americans mourned on Thanksgiving and held rallies against the ongoing police brutality against the black people. An event, dubbed the National Day of Mourning, has been held annually on Thanksgiving to honor the Native Americans who died due to the European invasion in the 17th century. At this year’s event, demonstrators expressed solidarity with the African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been rocked by violent protests against the police killing of African-Americans. The fatal shootings of black people have reopened a fierce national debate in the United States on police brutality in dealing with minorities. JR/HJL http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/29/388038/us-killing-blacks-on-epidemic-scale/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- Ову поруку сте добили зато што сте пријављени на Google групу „SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK“. Да бисте отказали пријаву у ову групу и престали да примате имејлове од ње, пошаљите имејл на [email protected]. Да бисте постављали у овој групи, пошаљите е-поруку на [email protected]. Посетите ову групу на http://groups.google.com/group/senet. За више опција посетите https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
