Human Rights Hearing on Police Killings in U.S.
Summary
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a preeminent regional human rights body that is part of the Organization of American States, held a hearing on the lack of accountability for police killings across the United States.
Video of the hearing is available here:
For more, read a post on the Human Rights at Home Blog .
Submissions are available from:
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
The International Human Rights Clinic at Santa Clara University
The topics that were covered included:
- Recent developments under the Trump administration, including deficiencies in the Justice Department鈥檚 Civil Rights Division and recent proposals that would modify federal oversight into allegations of police killings and other misconduct
- The legal framework authorizing the use of force
- Trump administration鈥檚 dismantling of federal oversight mechanisms to prevent the militarization of police departments
- How people from minority communities are struggling to seek justice for unlawful police killings
- The need for more transparent and credible investigations into police shootings
- The lack of official data collection and reporting of police killings at the state and federal levels.
Speakers included:
- U.S. Government Representatives
- Shaun King (via recorded video), Writer and civil rights activist
- Jennifer Turner, 老澳门开奖结果 Human Rights Program
- Maria Hamilton, Mother of Dontre Hamilton (killed by police in Milwaukee) and founder of
- Luis Poot Pat, Cousin of (killed by police in San Francisco)
- Adriana Camarena, Civil rights activist
- Professor Justin Hansford, Executive Director, Thurgood Marshall Center for Civil Rights, Howard University School of Law
In 2015, the Commission held a hearing on , and will soon release a report on on Africa Americans, the Use of Force, and Human Rights. Relatives of victims, civil and human rights activists, and Trump administration officials will give statements and answer questions at the hearing. A press briefing was held after at 1:30.
