U.N. Panel Criticizes U.S. Policy on Police Shootings, Torture
"A United Nations panel on Friday sharply criticized how the United
States handles a variety of criminal justice-related issues, such as the
police shooting of unarmed African Americans, the imprisonment of
terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the application of the
death penalty.
In a 16-page report, its first such review since
2006, the U.N. Committee Against Torture condemned U.S. policies in
handling how police dealt with issues of brutality against blacks and
Latinos. It did not specifically mention events in Ferguson, Mo., but
the parents of Michael Brown, fatally shot by a white police officer,
spoke to the commission before the findings were released.
'There are numerous areas in which certain things should be changed for
the United States to comply fully with the convention,' Alessio Bruni of
Italy, one of the panel's chief investigators, said at a news
conference in Geneva. He was referring to the U.N. Convention Against
Torture, which took effect in 1987 and the United States ratified in
1994."
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