US based on ‘enslavement and genocide’ of blacks
A grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for shooting dead a black boy in Ohio underscores that the United States is a “failed human rights state” and a “crime scene,” a researcher and historian in Washington says.
“The predictable American injustice system has produced a typical byproduct of its racism and injustice,” said Dr. Randy Short, who has a Ph.D in African studies.
The American society is “based on enslavement, genocide and persecution” of African Americans, Dr. Short said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
On Monday, a grand jury declined to indict officer Timothy Loehmann for shooting dead 12-year-old Tamir Rice just two seconds after arriving at the scene in Cleveland, Ohio on November 22, 2014.
Rice was pulling out the airsoft gun from his waistband to either hand it over to the cops or show them that it is not real.
Prosecutor Tim McGinty said, however, that Loehmann and his partner had no way of knowing what was happening.
Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Meyer also said that differentiating between a fake and a real gun was "extremely difficult" for Loehmann.
Small groups of protesters gathered Monday outside the Cuyahoga County Justice Center and at the recreation center where Rice was shot.
At one point, chanting "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" and "Racist cops have got to go," the demonstrators knocked on the door of the police station where Loehmann worked.
Police killings, especially of African Americans, have sparked protests in cities across the US over the past two years.
According to data compiled by an activist group, US police have killed 1,152 people as of December 15 of this year, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 African Americans.
Forty percent of people killed by police in the country's 60 biggest police departments were black, while the African-American population in those jurisdictions was 20 percent, according to activists that run the Mapping Police Violence project.
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