Cap Americas - Racial violence: the United States faces its old demons

Our reports:

George Floyd's agony filmed live sparked nationwide protests. Since then, whites and blacks have paraded side by side to demand an end to racial violence. Back on this event, in the light of the segregationist past of the United States, with Nina Masson and Selina Sykes.

The end of police impunity remains one of the main demands of the demonstrators, as well as a fair and equitable treatment of suspects, regardless of their skin color. In the United States, it is a fact, African-Americans are two and a half times more likely than whites to be killed by the police during an interaction. Of the thousand deaths recorded last year, a quarter of the victims had black skin, which is considerable, when you know that African-Americans represent only 12% of the American population. Our correspondent Valérie Defert followed the Los Angeles police.

Finally, on the political level, the Democratic camp is mobilizing Congress with a new police bill. In the middle of the presidential campaign. Explanations from Reed Kennedy, the Democrats Abroad representative in Paris.

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