US Rights Record Under Scanner
A policing human rights horror that has thrived uncontrolled for decades is starting to unfold in the United States, which for decades has lectured the world on civil liberties. Several buried accounts of rampant cops killing black men with impunity are surfacing following the police murder of George Floyd that has ignited a movement for racial justice across the country and across the world. Statistics compiled by the U.S media show the American police have shot and killed nearly 5000 people over the past five years at the rate of nearly 1000 every year. The country’s mostly white police force meanwhile is fighting back with support from President Trump amid a raging debate about defunding the police, even as Congress and many local legislatures are pushing for rapid police reforms including banning strong-arm methods and demilitarizing them.
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