{"id":112375,"date":"2015-04-29T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112375"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:36:30","slug":"police-violence-against-blacks-systemic-us-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/police-violence-against-blacks-systemic-us-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Police violence against blacks &#8216;systemic&#8217; &#8211; US Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American Diplomat in Ghana, Daniel Fennell has said the recurring shooting of black Americans by the Police in the United States (US) is &#8220;systemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US has in recent times recorded a number of shooting incidents which has led to the death of about five persons.<\/p>\n<p>In almost all the cases, the victims were gunned down by Police men.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Gray is the latest man to have suffered from such an incident; he died of a spinal cord injury after being arrested, sparking demonstrations in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was earlier charged with murder after a video showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man surfaced.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSHktRebJFM\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many have described most of these riots as state sponsored aggression against citizens of a certain racial type.<\/p>\n<p>However reacting to such wide held perception, Dr Fennell downplayed such views, saying:&#8221;I think that might be overstatement. State sponsored might sound the state is sponsoring such incidents, but that is not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fennell said the United States had initiated talks with major stakeholders to resolve the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something that we call systemic which would suggest that it is evident enough on a regular basis and I think where we are heading now is the beginning of a very useful conversation in the United States about how that can be improved&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, both the President and the Federal government are \u201cinterested\u201d in the development and are taking active measures to make \u201cpolicing better, more community oriented and responsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Fennell also revealed that the violence at Baltimore had reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not an ongoing violent \u00a0incident taking place now although you see the tapes of yesterday\u2018s event going on television that is being repeated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that doesn\u2019t take away from the underlying issue that there is an ongoing discussion regarding violence at the hands of law enforcement agencies in various communities, specifically the black,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on audio to listen to Daniel Fennell\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/203100348&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Killings state sanctioned \u2013 Esther Armah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An adjunct professor at the African University of College of Communication (AUCC),Esther Armah however believes the recent killings are &#8220;state sanctioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Ms Armah said \u201cthere&#8217;s state sanctioned violence by the police against black people all over America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She decried how the media, government and the US President had placed more emphasis on talking about the response to the brutality rather than tackling them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of Baltimore victims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to her, a newspaper in Balitimore that did an investigation into Police brutality\u00a0 revealed that over the past four years alone more than 100 people have won court judgements or settlements as a result of Police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>She listed some victims that had been affected by the recent series of shooting incidents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 16-year-old boy who was riding a bike, thrown to the ground, punched and jumped on.<\/li>\n<li>A 26-year-old pregnant accountant who was thrown to the ground and beaten.<\/li>\n<li>A 60-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets<\/li>\n<li>And another 65 -year -old woman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American Diplomat in Ghana, Daniel Fennell has said the recurring shooting of black Americans by the Police in the United States (US) is &#8220;systemic.&#8221; The US has in recent times recorded a number of shooting incidents which has led to the death of about five persons. 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