The African American people in the United States are undergoing a “slow genocide” by the country’s white-dominated law enforcement and criminal justice system, an American historian and researcher says.
“The Chicago policeman, Officer Van Dyke, who shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, an African American youth… is a micro chasm of the slow genocide of African-Americans at the hands of the police and the larger Anglo American society,” Dr. Randy Short told Press TV on Thursday.
Short’s comments followed the release of a police video on Tuesday that showed how McDonald was gunned down by officer Van Dyke who shot the teenager 16 times.
Van Dyke has been charged with first degree murder and is now facing a minimum of 20 years in prison.
The city paid McDonald’s family a $5 million settlement for the shooting.
The incident, which sparked widespread protests against police brutality, even shook President Barack Obama, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by Laquan’s killing.
Earlier in November, a study found that more than half of young African Americans or someone they know has been victimized by police violence or harassment.
Dr. Short described the trend as part of a larger plot to destroy the black ethnic minority in the US.
“These killings are not disconnected from the fact that there has been an alliance between forces, hidden and those known, to bring drugs into the city of Chicago and guns to cause the death of African Americans,” he said.
“You do not just have racism; you have Zionism; you have drug, narcoterrorism; and American terrorism on steroids,” he added.
Short also warned that the extent of racism against African Americans will result in widespread violence in the near future.
“My heart is heavy, I am hoping that no one is killed, but I just feel that we might see communal violence on a national basis,” Short said.
A number of high-profile killings of unarmed African American men by white police officers in the past two years has caused public outrage and mass protests across the country.
The number of US police officers charged with deadly shootings in 2015 has surged to the highest level in a decade. However, only a small percentage of the cases have led to convictions, according to recent studies. – Press TV.
