In San Francisco, the police killing of 26-year-old Mario Woods in December sparked months of protests and demands for the ouster of police chief Greg Suhr. We are better than this." Police leadership under pressureĪngry protests about police using lethal force and racial profiling have roiled the country since the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida, and exploded when Darren Wilson shot dead unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014.
It's incumbent on all of us to say we can do better than this. "All fair minded people should be concerned. This is an American issue that we should all care about.
"When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the colour of their skin they are not being treated the same," he said.Ĭiting a litany of evidence to show that non-white Americans are more likely to be pulled over, searched or shot by police, Mr Obama appealed to white Americans not to see this as a fringe issue.
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