FBI: US police killings of Black overexaggerated
FBI Director James B. Comey has rejected as inaccurate Americans’ information about the prevalent use of force by US police against the black people.
Comey’s remarks on Sunday came in spite of massive protests all across the United States over police fatal shootings of African Americans.
"It is a narrative that has formed, in the absence of good information and in the absence of actual data, and it is this: Biased police are killing black men at epidemic rates," Comey told the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Sunday at the group’s annual conference in San Diego.
“That is the narrative. It is a narrative driven by video images of real misconduct, possible misconduct, and perceived misconduct,” he said.
He called the numerous videos leaked so far “a small group,” which is used by Americans as “proof of nationwide police brutality."
"In a nation of almost a million, law enforcement officers and tens of millions of police encounters each year, a small group of videos serve as proof of an epidemic," he said, adding "Americans actually have no idea" about this.
The US police are accused of using excessive force against African-Americans. The deaths of unarmed black men and women in recent months and over the past years have sparked nationwide protests under the banner of 'Black Lives Matter.'
The United Nations is “extremely concerned” about the human rights situation of African-Americans in the US, according to a September report by the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.
The report showed that “contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching.”
According to a 2015 report by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization, almost 3,960 black people were killed in “racial terror lynching” in several southern states between 1877 and 1950.
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