US police using drug war scenario against blacks: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Opio Sokoni, a rights activist, in Jacksonville, and US Congressional Defense Policy Adviser Frederick Peterson in New York City, to discuss police brutality in the United States especially against minority groups.

Sokoni maintains that the United States justice system is suffering from deep-rooted racism, adding that US police are using a “drug war” scenario as an excuse for the mass incarceration of black people.

The US military forces are perpetrating different kinds of crimes in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, and when they come back home, they do the same things with black communities under the guise of the police force, he says.

Meanwhile, Peterson believes that black people are seeking to mar police officers’ reputation by introducing them as the main source of trouble in black communities, while the only thing the police forces are doing is showing reaction to provocations.

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