A new United Nations report puts a welcomed international spotlight and hopefully additional pressure on officials to address the serious problem of police brutality and the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials against African Americans and Latinos in the United States.
The United States often exercises the moral authority to condemn other nations for human rights abuses inflicted on racial and religious minorities. However U.S. lawmakers and policymakers should now take heed of the U.N. report on how this country deals with its racial minorities.
The U.N. panel’s report on Friday found the United States to be falling short of full compliance with an international anti-torture treaty particularly in the areas of police brutality, military interrogations and prisons.
The U.N. report also criticizes the U.S. record on military interrogations, maximum security prisons, illegal immigrants and solitary confinement while calling for tougher federal laws to define and outlaw torture, including with detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in Yemen. It also called for abolishing interrogation techniques that rely on sleep or sensory deprivation “aimed at prolonging the sense of capture.”
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