Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Delivers Statement to Press TV: 'Law Enforcement Authorities in US Totally Out of Control'
Mon Jul 7, 2014 5:36PM
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To listen to this Press TV statement by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/07/370296/us-police-are-totally-out-of-control/
An American analyst says the recent “vicious” beating of a 51-year-old woman by a white patrol officer in California shows that law enforcement authorities in the US “are totally out of control.”
Last week, a white cop with the California Highway Patrol unleashed a barrage of punches to the face of African-American great-grandmother Marlene Pinnock after he chased her on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles and tackled her to the ground.
The violent scene was captured on video and went viral on the Internet. In response to criticisms, the CHP said the officer, who was not identified by the agency, was trying to restrain Pinnock because she was endangering herself and people in traffic by walking on the Los Angeles freeway. Pinnock’s family says they plan to sue the CHP.
“This is typical of the type of excessive force that’s utilized by law enforcement agencies all across the United States,” said Abayomi Azikiwe with the Pan-African News Wire in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
“There’s a high degree of racial profiling of African Americans. Latinos, and others are specifically targeted, people from the Middle East are targeted,” he added.
“This has to stop. Congress should take action. The president of the United States, Barack Obama, should make a clear statement that the US government is in opposition to this type of use of excessive force as there have been many instances where people have died in similar circumstances,” he noted.
Azikiwe also said that such instances demonstrate that “racial profiling is very much in existence, and that the central government either ignores these types of incidents or does not take any real serious efforts on a national level to put this type of abuse to an end.”
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| Abayomi Azikiwe on Press TV graphic depicting US police violence. |
presstv.ir
To listen to this Press TV statement by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/07/370296/us-police-are-totally-out-of-control/
An American analyst says the recent “vicious” beating of a 51-year-old woman by a white patrol officer in California shows that law enforcement authorities in the US “are totally out of control.”
Last week, a white cop with the California Highway Patrol unleashed a barrage of punches to the face of African-American great-grandmother Marlene Pinnock after he chased her on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles and tackled her to the ground.
The violent scene was captured on video and went viral on the Internet. In response to criticisms, the CHP said the officer, who was not identified by the agency, was trying to restrain Pinnock because she was endangering herself and people in traffic by walking on the Los Angeles freeway. Pinnock’s family says they plan to sue the CHP.
“This is typical of the type of excessive force that’s utilized by law enforcement agencies all across the United States,” said Abayomi Azikiwe with the Pan-African News Wire in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
“There’s a high degree of racial profiling of African Americans. Latinos, and others are specifically targeted, people from the Middle East are targeted,” he added.
“This has to stop. Congress should take action. The president of the United States, Barack Obama, should make a clear statement that the US government is in opposition to this type of use of excessive force as there have been many instances where people have died in similar circumstances,” he noted.
Azikiwe also said that such instances demonstrate that “racial profiling is very much in existence, and that the central government either ignores these types of incidents or does not take any real serious efforts on a national level to put this type of abuse to an end.”
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