Washington-SANA
The US National Public Radio revealed that 135 people of African descent have been killed by US officers and police officers since 2015, and that 75 percent of those involved in their killing were white, and despite some convictions, they kept their jobs.
In an investigation published on its website today, the National Public Radio of America indicated that 19 of the officers involved in shooting unarmed black men were rookies and that six of them had a past of drug abuse and a record of domestic violence, noting that the criminal justice system refuses to prosecute those involved. This often results in their departments pushing them back onto the street or that police unions working to protect them from accountability.
The radio added that the records it reviewed showed that the authorities had failed to file charges against officers in more than 80 cases and that among those involved in the deadly shootings against unarmed blacks over the past five years, 13 of them were charged with murder and only two of them were convicted, as well as in 33 A shooting incident during which the officers were fired or resigned and at least three regained their jobs while five went to work for other law enforcement agencies.
The American Radio indicated that the decision not to hold the officers accountable is not up to the prosecution only, as police unions often make it impossible to remove an officer from the police despite his repeated shooting and other violations.
Philip Stinson, professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, a former police officer in Virginia and New Hampshire, told the radio: “It is difficult to prosecute policemen accused of murder or premeditated murder due to in-service shooting because jurors often sympathize with them and that they Somehow they take everything that was presented in the case during the trial and ignore the legal standards. ”
The American New York Daily News published a report last August in which it revealed racism and violent crime scandals that returned to reveal the true face of US police practices with the emergence of a video tape about the murder of a young African-American while being arrested by police officers in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2017, where the video clip shows a young man named Mohamed Muhaimin suffering from psychological problems and being subjected to violence by police officers who were summoned after the victim insisted on entering the bathroom in a social institution in Maricopa town, where the newspaper explained that although the victim was defenseless, he was not pregnant. Any weapon, except that he was subjected to excessive violence by the police who used force against him, as four of them threw him to the ground and pressed his neck, head and body, leaving him only dead body even though he was screaming that he could not breathe.
The murder of Muhaimin added to the violent and racist crimes committed by the US police against descendants of African descent, including George Floyd, who was killed by the police on May 25, 2020 in the same way by pressing his neck to death, sparking protests against police violence across the United States.
