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U.S. police killings reminiscent of lynching, U.N. group says
Reuters ^ | September 23, 2016 | Tom Miles

Posted on 09/25/2016 4:35:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Police killings of black people in the United States are reminiscent of lynchings and the government must do far more to protect them, a United Nations working group says in a report that will be debated at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

The hard-hitting criticism - drawing a comparison between modern police behaviour and mob killings of blacks in the 19th and 20th centuries - comes at a time of renewed racial tension in the United States.

This week Charlotte, North Carolina, saw street riots over the shooting of a black man, Keith Scott, by a black police officer. On Friday, a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man turned herself into authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching," said the report by the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blacks; lawenforcement; leo; racism; un; unitednations
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1 posted on 09/25/2016 4:35:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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It’s getting difficult to tell the difference between statements made by UN officials and our government.


2 posted on 09/25/2016 4:37:27 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chicago this weekend, 9 killed..not a peep from the Jew Hating UN


3 posted on 09/25/2016 4:37:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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4 posted on 09/25/2016 4:38:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eff the U.N.

Apparently they know nothing other than what Democrats tell them.


5 posted on 09/25/2016 4:40:10 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Imagine how these twits would squawk if rioters and looters were getting shot while committing their crimes?


6 posted on 09/25/2016 4:40:54 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FUUN


7 posted on 09/25/2016 4:40:55 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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kick the UN out before it is used to attack us militarily from as well...may as well call it the UN mosque of bs, lies and murder


8 posted on 09/25/2016 4:42:41 PM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent..

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They do know their brethren sold their forebears into slavery way back when,, long before the evil colonialists arrived on scene..,, but then again , this is a ‘working group’ of the UN..


9 posted on 09/25/2016 4:45:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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Does the UN ever criticize Iran or Saudi Arabia or any Muslim Country ?????


10 posted on 09/25/2016 4:45:29 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I really care what the president of the UN, prezident mgumbo ahziharazizzi from the nation of (series of tongue clicks) thinks


11 posted on 09/25/2016 4:48:51 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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12 posted on 09/25/2016 4:51:25 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: eyeamok

No.


13 posted on 09/25/2016 4:52:40 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: BenLurkin

U.N. is reminiscent of Curly, Larry and Moe, Cardinal4 says..


14 posted on 09/25/2016 4:55:33 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The UN can seriously GFT.


15 posted on 09/25/2016 4:56:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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More whites killed by cops than blacks so therefor .....


16 posted on 09/25/2016 4:57:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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17 posted on 09/25/2016 4:59:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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It looks like white people should be out rioting. I needs a free tv!


18 posted on 09/25/2016 5:16:37 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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P_fffffffffffffffffffTTTTTTT!!!


19 posted on 09/25/2016 5:17:06 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready. I am deplorable.))
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U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent?

I think we just figured out where ethnic studies majors go after college.


20 posted on 09/25/2016 5:18:12 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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