People of African descent are three times more likely to be killed by law enforcement.
34% of prisoners are black women… Most children are sentenced to life imprisonment
UN human rights experts called for urgent reform on the 5th (local time), saying that the U.S. judicial system systematically discriminates against black people.
According to the Voice of America (VOA) on this day, the 32-page report submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee points out that racism, a legacy of slavery, continues today in the form of human rights violations by US judicial authorities, such as racial profiling.
According to the report, approximately 1,000 people end their lives at the hands of U.S. law enforcement each year, with black people being three times more likely to be killed by police than white people, and 4.5 times more likely to be imprisoned. Black female prisoners also account for 34% of all prisoners.
The report also said, “Black children were more than four times as likely as white children to be detained in juvenile facilities or to commit a crime, and many of them were sentenced to life in prison.”
“We have seen the over-representation of people of African descent in the U.S. criminal justice system,” Tracy Kage, a U.N. human rights expert, told the committee.
Kizzi is one of the experts who began the investigation following the death of George Floyd, a black man, by U.S. police in 2021.
“I was astounded by the number of cases and circumstances in which people of African descent were unequally killed by police,” Kisey said, emphasizing that “this is a structural problem.”
He urged the U.S. government to “address the legacy of slavery that still leads to discriminatory practices and adopt alternative approaches to policing.”
Michelle Taylor, the U.S. ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, acknowledged that “systemic racism against people of African descent in law enforcement and the criminal justice system has existed for centuries and continues to exist in the United States and abroad.”
He added that the U.S. Joe Biden administration is working to address systemic racism by improving community security and the criminal justice system.
Source: Donga
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