A report on the U.S. human rights situation has criticized racial discrimination in the U.S., citing police killings of African-Americans in the case of Ferguson and some other high-profile shootings.
"In 2014, multiple cases of arbitrary police killing of African-Americans have sparked huge waves of protests, casting doubts on the racial 'equality' in the U.S. and giving rise to racial hatred factors," says the report, titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014," released on Friday by China's State Council Information Office.
Racial bias in law enforcement and judicial system is very distinct, it says, and African-Americans are more likely to become victims of police shooting in the U.S..
"Victims of the high-profile deaths caused by police enforcement in 2014 were all African-Americans," the report says, adding that the Ferguson case exposed the feature, gravity and complexity of human rights problems in the U.S. caused by the country's institutional racial discrimination, highlighting the racial discrimination problem in the law enforcement and judicial system.
It mentioned that amid sweeping protests against judicial injustice in relevant case, another fatal shooting of an African-American man Rumain Brisbon by a white police officer took place in Phoenix, Arizona.
"Police killings of African-Americans during law enforcement have practically become 'normal' in the U.S.," it criticizes.
The report also accuses that African-Americans and other ethnic minority groups are more likely to be targeted in law enforcement such as controversial drug sting operations, or be stopped-and-frisked or arrested.
Facing discrimination in employment and payment, the ethnic minorities are trapped in graver poverty, the report goes on. Religious discrimination in employment is also serious.
The report warns that racial discrimination sows the seeds for race-related hate crimes in the U.S., noting the case of Frazier Glenn Cross, a 73-year-old white supremacist, who shot and killed three people at two Jewish sites of Greater Kansas City last year.
The year of 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, only 45 percent of Americans said the U.S. had made substantial progress toward racial equality since the event. Another poll found that 46 percent of Americans said there would always be a lot of prejudice and discrimination, according to the report.
