WASHINGTON

US rights record under scrutiny as more police killings come to light

WASHINGTON: A policing human rights horror that has thrived uncontrolled for decades is starting to unfold in the United States, which for decades has lectured the world on civil liberties

Several buried accounts of rampant cops killing black men with impunity are surfacing following the police murder of George Floyd that has ignited a movement for racial justice across the country, and across the world. In some instances, the black men have uttered the same last words Floyd gasped as he died under the knee of a policeman in Minneapolis: “I can’t breath” – which has become a rallying cry of protesters.