The UN high commissioner for human rights grounded her analysis in the long-overdue need to confront the legacies of enslavement, Marjorie Cohn reports.
UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
Category: Police Brutality
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Formula for Sentencing Derek Chauvin
No matter how much time Chauvin gets, he’s going to spend all of it in solitary confinement.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Memo to Biden — What About the Other Whistleblowers?
Darnella Frazier deserves national commendation. The same goes for Joshua Schulte, Daniel Hale and Darin Jones, all of whom are in dire straits right now.
The Pattern of Over-Policing Drivers
On the heels of the police killing of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, Samantha Schuyler reports on an ACLU study showing law enforcers’ incentives to punish as many people as possible.
Calling Chauvin a ‘Bad Apple’ Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
Regardless of the trial outcome, Marjorie Cohn says the entire system must be indicted as racist and violent.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Probing Racist Violence in US as Part of Worldwide Study After Trump Administration Blocked UN Human Rights Council US Inquiry
The UN high commissioner for human rights is probing “systemic racism, [and] violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies,” Marjorie Cohn reports.
US Downgraded as Civil Liberties Deteriorate Across the Americas
A monitoring group says a disproportionate response by law enforcement goes beyond what is acceptable in policing protests, even during an emergency.
This CN Live! Documentary May Have Been Illegal Under Proposed Law
In March CN Live! was in Paris to film a documentary on the Yellow Vests movement that included footage of French police that under a proposed law, now being rewritten, could have incurred a €45,000 fine.
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History
If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad.