China News Service, Beijing, October 18 (Reporter Huang Yuqin) The phenomenon of violent law enforcement against white American police officers has been exposed by the media again recently. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on the 18th that the relevant reports are numerous, shocking and disturbing. Fingering.
He emphasized that the United States should face up to and correct its own violent law enforcement and human rights violations, so that the "Freudian tragedy" will no longer be staged.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian.
Photo by Xue Wei
A reporter asked a question. According to recent reports by the US media, on September 24, a white police officer in Indiana, USA, slammed an African-American homeless man with his hands handcuffed in the face during law enforcement, which was strongly criticized by American society. .
The US government used to slander the normal law enforcement actions of other countries as suppressing and restricting freedom and undermining human rights, but its own country’s police violent law enforcement actions have been repeatedly banned.
What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
"There are countless, shocking, and outrageous reports of white American police violent law enforcement." Zhao Lijian said that a few days ago, experts from the University of Washington and other institutions in the United States published a research report in The Lancet, showing that between 1980 and 2018, the United States About 30,800 people died as a result of police violence.
This number is approximately 17,100 more than the officially announced number. Among them, African Americans are 3.5 times more likely to die as a result of police violence than whites.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of serious human rights violations in the United States.
Zhao Lijian said that in February this year, the United Nations independent human rights expert called on the United States to take extensive reform measures to stop police violence and address systemic racism and racial discrimination.
In June of this year, the Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Human Rights Council Working Group on People of African Descent and 27 special mechanism experts issued a joint statement condemning the current issue of racist lynching executions in the United States and asking the US government to conduct an independent investigation and study all police officers. Responsibility for cases of excessive use of force, to solve the problem of systemic racism and racial prejudice in the US criminal justice system.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that the United States has just been re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. He hopes that the United States will take this opportunity to abandon double standards, stop politicizing human rights issues, first face and correct its own violent law enforcement and human rights violations, and severely punish perpetrators. , So that the minorities who have suffered from serious systemic racial discrimination no longer live in fear, and the "Freudian tragedy" is no longer staged.
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