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UN human rights experts have expressed "legitimate concerns" about US juries failing to charge policemen involved in the deaths of two black civilians.

It is part of a broader "pattern of impunity" concerning minority victims, the UN said in a statement.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest over the deaths of two black men at the hands of white officers in recent months.

Grand juries in Missouri and New York failed to charge either officer.

"I am concerned by the grand juries' decisions and the apparent conflicting evidence that exists relating to both incidents," UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsak, said in a statement.

A trial process would ensure the evidence is considered in detail, she said.

"The decisions leave many with legitimate concerns relating to a pattern of impunity when the victims of excessive use of force come from African-American or other minority communities."

 

Watch: How the protests unfolded in a number of US cities

Human rights expert Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France, who currently heads the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, said the cases add to existing concerns.

She pointed to "longstanding prevalence of racial discrimination faced by African-Americans, particularly in relation to access to justice and discriminatory police practices".

The UN findings come amid ongoing protests over the death of Eric Garner, a black man held in an apparent chokehold by a white New York police officer.

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When you see it, you will shit bricks... or just hopefully recognise how rampant institutionalised racism is in this country and see how deeply Afro-Guyanese in the racist machinery are affected by cognitive dissonance. To save you some work, let me explain the connections:

1) The first picture (top-left) is a recent photograph of staff from the PPP-controlled State paper, Guyana Chronicle posing with Donald Ramotar. The first person circled is D Michael Wills, a young 'Afro-Guyanese' reporter who on occasion likes to engage in social media lectures about journalistic responsibility and ethics. Also circled in the picture are Ramotar and his nephew, Mark, the Chronicle's Editor-in-Chief.

2) The second picture (top-right) is a screenshot of aStabroek News article about the PPP deeming Shaquille Grant, a teenager shot and killed by members of the Guyana Police Force, a criminal.

3) The third picture (bottom-left) is another Stabroek News article screenshot of an article on the Bar Association calling for Donald Ramotar to disassociate himself from the latest racist editorial, one which paints all young Agro-Guyanese males as criminals, published in the state paper which his party runs and which his nephew is in charge of, a paper that employs young Afro-Guyanese employees like Wills and Leroy Smith, also featured in the first picture.

4) The final picture (bottom-right) is a post by Wills from the Ferguson riots to which he adds the hashtags, ForMikeBrown and FergusoninOregon. Not a single post however on the PPP's posthumous criminalising of Grant, a teenager who was shot and killed not confronting an officer like Brown was but simply sitting in a yard with some friends.

 

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

In Guyana the PPP has an established record of slaughtering young black men.

 

The PPP has implemented institutionalized racism. Wake up and accept the facts.

FACTS???  You would not recognize it if it is imprinted on your thick skull!!!

Bhai Nehru, why you call the man thick skull? The educated doctor always call people unschooled. Do you know of any award we can bestow on this educated idiot?

FM
Originally Posted by skeldon_man:
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

In Guyana the PPP has an established record of slaughtering young black men.

 

The PPP has implemented institutionalized racism. Wake up and accept the facts.

FACTS???  You would not recognize it if it is imprinted on your thick skull!!!

Bhai Nehru, why you call the man thick skull? The educated doctor always call people unschooled. Do you know of any award we can bestow on this educated idiot?

Shelly wah all yuh guh do......... PPP ah get desperate by the day.. Desperation has increased at unprecedented rates into Freedom house.....

FM

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