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The systematic killing and maiming of unarmed African Americans by police
amount to crimes against humanity that should be investigated and prosecuted
under international law, an inquiry into US police brutality by leading
human rights lawyers from around the globe has found.
A week after the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was
convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death, the unabated epidemic of
police killings of Black men and women in the US has now attracted scorching
international attention.
In a devastating report running to 188 pages, human rights experts from 11
countries hold the US accountable for what they say is a long history of
violations of international law that rise in some cases to the level of
crimes against humanity.
They point to what they call “police murders” as well as “severe
deprivation of physical liberty, torture, persecution and other inhuman acts
” as systematic attacks on the Black community that meet the definition of
such crimes.
They also call on the prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC)
in The Hague to open an immediate investigation with a view to prosecutions.
“This finding of crimes against humanity was not given lightly, we included
it with a very clear mind,” Hina Jilani, one of the 12 commissioners who
led the inquiry, told the Guardian. “We examined all the facts and
concluded that that there are situations in the US that beg the urgent
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