“The shooting of #MichaelBrown has highlighted on a national level the persistent and widespread pattern of racially discriminatory treatment by law enforcement officers across the United States, including unjustified stops and searches, ill treatment and excessive, and sometimes lethal, use of force,” found Amnesty International, which investigates reports of human rights violations in some of the world’s most dangerous locations. Indeed, the report continued, shortly after Brown was shot six times and killed, another young African American man, Kajieme Powell, was also shot dead. “Police claims that he was brandishing a knife were not borne out by available video footage of the shooting.”
MjL 25 Oct 2014, 5:56 a.m.
I fear this cavalier treatment will simply insure that people will lie when asked if they have been in countries with Ebola. Nobody wants to be caged and treated like a guinea pig and we won’t know who those folks are until we find them dead from the disease. When you criminalize disease people stop being honest.
If you happen to click on this link scroll down to the comment section. I must say I am never more disgusted with my fellow countrymen than when I read outrageous and uneducated comments from people who believe a person deserves to be treated like an animal because they MIGHT have a disease. Zero compassion or empathy —— just naked anger caused by the fear mongering of the media.
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