UN experts urge US to confront police brutality against Black people

UN experts have called for a nationwide commitment to address discrimination suffered by Black Americans in their daily dealings with the law, following their first official visit to the US. The experts investigated excessive use of force, militarised policing, racial profiling and other human rights violations by law enforcement and penal agencies against Black Americans. They called for a "whole government approach" to tackle the ongoing scourge of police brutality and law enforcement's discrimination against Black people, and a dramatic reduction in the use of solitary confinement in US jails and prisons. The UN experts will present their final report to the human rights council in Geneva in September or October.