China News Service, Beijing, April 18 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on April 18.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

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　　Reporter: According to US media reports, a white police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA recently shot a 26-year-old African-American man Patrick Leoya in the head during law enforcement, killing him on the spot.

The incident once again triggered strong criticism of racial discrimination and police brutality in American society.

What is the spokesperson's comment on this?

　　Wang Wenbin: We are deeply concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States.

A large number of facts show that issues such as racial discrimination, gun crime, and violent law enforcement do not exist in isolated cases in the United States, but are long-term and systemic problems.

　　More than a year after Floyd's "I can't breathe" wailing, hundreds of ethnic minorities have died at the gunpoint of U.S. law enforcement officers.

93.7% of American Muslims live in the shadow of "Islamophobia".

81% of Asian-American adults believe that violence against Asian-Americans is on the rise.

Hispanics, who make up 19 percent of the U.S. population, own only 2 percent of U.S. wealth.

Fernand de Varena, special rapporteur on minority issues at the UN Human Rights Council, said the U.S. legal system is structured to favor the rich and punish only the poor, especially minorities.

　　The United States has the worst gun violence in the world and is the only developed country to have seen mass shootings every year for the past 20 years.

In 2020, there were 45,222 gun-related deaths in the United States, a 43 percent increase from 2010.

According to a 2018 survey, 75 percent of American teens cited violent shootings as their main source of stress.

According to an April 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 48 percent of Americans believe gun violence is a major problem in the United States that needs to be addressed.

Yet over the past 25 years, the federal government has failed to introduce a gun control bill.

　　Reportedly, people of color suffer from police discrimination in many ways.

According to the survey, only 22% of Americans believe that the police treat all Americans equally.

　　The United States is becoming a country where human rights are systematically violated.

The United States has no right to point fingers at other countries' human rights.

What the US should do is to face up to the serious human rights problems that are widespread in China, and seriously reflect on how to solve the problem of the deteriorating human rights situation at the root.

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