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US police brutality ‘incremental genocide’ against blacks: Historian

Thursday, 05 February 2015 7:31 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 05 February 2015 7:34 AM ]

An American historian says the police brutality against black people is a form of “incremental genocide.”

An American researcher and historian says the “police brutality” against unarmed black people in the United States is a “euphemism” for efforts to get rid of African-Americans who are considered as “hated national minority.”

Commenting on the US police killings of unarmed black men and the prosecutors’ decision not to indict the officers, Randy Short told Press TV that “police brutality is a form of incremental genocide against African-American people.”

“Police Brutality is a euphemism for the larger effort of Anglo-Americans to rid themselves of a hated national minority grouping no longer needed because the institution of slavery as it exists in the United States no longer needs blacks,” Short said on Wednesday.

“From the ratification of the American Constitution in 1787 to the present, the Anglo-American majority has sought to inhibit the growth of the African-American population,” he noted.

He went on to say that the police killings of black men and women are the “most egregious examples of White Supremacy and Anglo-American Apartheid.”

“Over scores of thousands of black people have been murdered over the last 150 years,” Short added.

US police have been involved in several cases of violence against unarmed African-American citizens in recent months.

The fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August 2014 sparked weeks of unrest and protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

The protesters became angry after a grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson, who shot dead the 18-year-old Brown.

In the wake of the shootings, the new head of the Congressional Black Caucus Representative G.K. Butterfield pushed for a criminal justice reform, saying that the current criminal justice system is “broken” and that the black America is “in a state of emergency.”

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