Amnesty calls on US authorities to stop violence against demonstrators

SANAA, June 1 (YPA) –  Amnesty International on Sunday called on the American authorities to desist from using violence against demonstrators during protests in the United States demanding justice in the case of the police murder of George Floyd.
Reuters quoted the director of research for the organization in the United States, Rachel Ward, as saying in a statement: “In another city after another, we see behaviors that can be considered unnecessary and excessive violence, and providing officers in a more appropriate way to the battlefield may put them in a state of mind as if confrontation and conflict are inevitable.” .

She pointed to the failure of the American police throughout the country to implement their obligations under international law to respect and facilitate the right to demonstrate peacefully, and this increases the tension and endanger the lives of protesters.

Word also called on US President Donald Trump to stop his speeches and policies “full of violence and discrimination” as the US government must engage in dialogue with demonstrators and disarm the police before the situation deteriorates.

George Floyd, 46, was killed on the 25th of last month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a police officer strangled him by pressing his knee on his neck for more than eight minutes in the latest incident in a series of murders targeting people of African descent by the police in United State.