The US likes to find fault with others’ human rights situations while advertising itself often as a “human rights model”.
However, the reality of the US, where the elementary right to human existence is mercilessly trampled down for no other reason than that they have different colours, is nothing but an insult to human rights.
In the US, the police which are said to take charge of public security are taking the lead in violating human rights and creating social instability.
In recent days alone, there was a shocking incident in Minnesota where a white cop cruelly killed a bare-handed African-American.
The incident gave rise to massive anti-racist demonstrations one after another in all parts of the country, resulting in the serious situation accompanying outrage.
The problem is that it was not a “mistake” made by an individual policeman, but a tragic result produced by the “Western-style ideal, democracy and values” the US has long boasted of.
The incessant killings of black people in the US by white policemen provide clear evidence of it.
According to recent foreign news reports, the number of people who are murdered by policemen has exceeded that of those killed by gangs or drug trafficking groups since 2010 and the danger of African-Americans being killed by the police is reportedly nine times higher than other nonwhite people. In actuality, the number of black people killed by the police in the US in 2015 amounted to a record high of 1 134.
What cannot be overlooked is the unbelievable fact that 99 percent of cops who killed black people were not brought to justice.
For example, the policeman who sprayed dozens of bullets into a black man and woman riding a car in late November 2012 for the reason that they violated the speed law was given a verdict of "not guilty", while the one who caused the Ferguson situation by shooting dead an innocent young black man in August 2014 was acquitted.
Especially, the white policeman who recently strangled George Floyd, an African-American, to death in Minnesota is said to have gone unpunished though he had 18 complaints. He was only lightly rebuked in the written form on two occasions. The other three fellow policemen who took part in the murder case are also known to have been involved in several attempted murder of black people and outrages during the past ten-odd years.
What is more serious is that the US lacks the system that can grasp and control the police conduct in a unified way. The federal government can be informed about such murder cases involving police through the reports from relevant police stations and the reports are made on the principle of voluntariness, rather than compulsoriness.
This is the essence of the judicial system of the US which they claim is based on “impartiality” and “justice” and that of the American political system which is embellished with “freedom” and “democracy”.
If this is the “liberal democracy” of the US, which country will accept its “ideal”?
I have no intention to interfere in the internal affairs of the US or slander its political system.
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