Title: UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts
Headings: UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts
News Analysis
UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts
Accountability for Bush-Era Crimes; Torture
Of the report’s 25 issues, four looked at racial disparities within the United States’ criminal justice system and law enforcement practices.
Racism in the Prison System; Racial Profiling; Police Brutality
Drone Strikes, Assassination
So far, US drone strikes and other covert operations have killed between 2,700 and nearly 5,000 people.
Guantanamo, Indefinite Detention
Indefinite detention violates international human rights law, but has been embraced by Obama ever since he stepped into the White House.
NSA Surveillance
Criminalizing the Homeless
Clean Your Own Backyard
Adam Hudson

Content: More than 60 percent of the US prison population are people of color. African Americans, while 13 percent of the national population, constitute nearly 40 percent of the prison population. Moreover, one in every three black males can expect to go to prison in their lifetime, compared to one in every six Latino males, and one in every 17 white males. Thus, black men are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men. Even though whites and blacks use drugs at roughly the same rates, African Americans are more likely to be imprisoned for drug-related offenses than whites. Every 28 hours, a black person is killed by a police officer, security guard, or self-appointed vigilante, according to a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Recently in New York City, NYPD brutalized two teenage African-American girls at a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn. A 16-year-old girl’s face was slammed against the floor, while police threw the 15-year-old through the restaurant’s window, shattering it as a result. The incident started when police ordered everyone to leave the restaurant, but one of the girls refused. While police violence against people of color has long existed, the militarization of American police exacerbates this trend.