Experts: Black Americans are 3 times more likely to be killed by the police than white Americans

A new report by United Nations human rights experts has reflected the great discrimination against black Americans and explained that urgent reforms must be made to get rid of those American citizens. In the report, the Human Rights Council of independent experts of the United Nations has expressed their concern due to the statistics and circumstances in which people are killed by the police in the United States. George Floyd, a black American brutally killed by the police.

The report states that Black Americans are 4.5 times more likely to be imprisoned than whites. According to a special report by the Department of Justice, black people are three times more likely to face the threat of coercion and are 11 times more likely to experience acts of misconduct by the police such as verbal abuse, harassment or sexual misconduct than white people. The latest statistics in the United States show that black people make up 90 percent of the workers who were laid off this year due to the increasing fear of economic recession and the policy of many companies to reduce workers.

Similarly, racism has been mentioned as one of the important causes of the deaths of black pregnant mothers in the United States, to the extent that the United Nations has announced in this context that, the high rate of maternal deaths among black women in North America is due to racial discrimination through verbal and physical abuse of health care providers, as well as denial of quality care and painkillers.

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