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Americans disgusted with police violence: Analyst

Thursday, 30 April 2015 2:50 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 30 April 2015 3:04 PM ]

National Guard patrol a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland amid anti-police brutality protests, April 29, 2015. © AFP

Press TV has interviewed Dr. Mustafa Ansari, an international lawyer based in Atlanta, to ask for his views on the ongoing protests against police brutality in the United States.

Here is a rough transcript of the interview.

Press TV: How do you feel about these latest protests that continue now ever since Freddie Gray had died?

Ansari: Well the rebellions, it’s really more than riots. Because these are seen in all of the cities, all of our major cities, we are all looking and listening and we are disgusted with the police brutality and police killings. So, what you are seeing is the aspects of that and this is going to continue until we see justice. So what we are doing right now, as international lawyers, we are training other lawyers and also monitors to go into these situations so that we could prepare a huge national case against the United States because the United States has absolute positive duty to protect the right to life of all its citizens.

Press TV: As an international lawyer, I imagine that you understand the significance of taking on the US as a superpower because even the UN has in fact spoken about police brutality in the country. Do you feel that your efforts will bear fruit?

Ansari: Yes. The conventions... in fact there are about six international conventions that the United States and its police officers have failed to adhere to, and when there was an extra-judicial killing in Ferguson, it was actually the human rights commission that gave us the seventh one when we had brought the Michael Brown family to Geneva. And that was a principle of one, extra-judicial killing, that United States has signed. So we feel very strongly that as we [gain] a capacity to do this, that once we get into the court, the law and facts are on our side.

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