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May 11, 2015

U.S. Tells UN Panel it Must "Do Better" on Civil Rights in Wake of Police Killings 
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The U.S. has acknowledged to a United Nations panel it must do more to
tackle police brutality and racism in the wake of a string of police
killings of unarmed African-Americans. Speaking to the United Nations
Human Rights Council today in Geneva, James Cadogan, an official in the
justice department's civil rights division, said the deaths of Freddie
Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and several others have "challenged us
to do better and to work harder for progress." He added*: "We must
rededicate ourselves to ensuring that our civil rights laws live up to
their promise."

 

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