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WASHINGTON, March 19, 2024 (AFP) – A former Mississippi policeman who carried out a brutal attack on two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad” was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. Elward, 31, who shot one of the men in […]
DOHA, Jan 24, 2024 (AFP) – Japan’s football association on Wednesday condemned the “shameful behaviour” of fans who racially abused Zion Suzuki online following the goalkeeper’s performances at the Asian Cup. Pre-tournament favourites Japan were beaten 2-1 by Iraq in the group phase on Friday in Doha with Suzuki responsible for one of the goals. The US-born 21-year-old, whose father is Ghanaian-American and whose mother is Japanese, said he was subsequently racially abused on social […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – A jury in the western US state of Colorado on Friday found two paramedics guilty of negligent homicide in the death of a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during his arrest, US media said. The August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man, died several days after a struggle with police and after being injected with the sedative by […]
A new report by UN International experts advancing racial justice and equality in policing, published after an official visit to the country, shows that Black people in the US are three times more likely to be killed by police than if they were White, and 4.5 times more likely to be incarcerated. Dr Tracie Keesee, an expert member of the task force, said the testimonies she heard on how victims do not get justice or […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Three police officers in Argentina were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the racially motivated killing of a 17-year-old boy, and six others received sentences of four to eight years for covering up the crime. In a case that became emblematic of institutional violence in Argentina, three officers were convicted of the 2021 killing of Lucas Gonzalez, a teen from a poor area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. […]
BRASÍLIA, June 7, 2023 (AFP) — Legislators in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro approved a law on Tuesday to curtail football matches affected by racist abuse, after a wave of disgust over the treatment of Vinicius Junior. The Real Madrid star, a native of the state, has been targeted multiple times by terrace racists over the past two years in Spain. State deputy Prof. Josemar, who drafted the legislation, said the winger’s treatment […]
By Mathiew LEISER, Marion THIBAUT Agence France-Presse TORONTO, Canada, May 24, 2023 (AFP) – The Chinese diaspora has been caught in the crossfire of Ottawa’s row with Beijing over its alleged meddling in Canada’s affairs — facing both intimidation from Chinese operatives and rising stigmatization. And each new spat between their ancestral home and adoptive country — the latest being tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats in May — brings additional stress for the community. Many people […]
By Inès BEL AIBA Agence France-Presse MINNEAPOLIS, May 22, 2023 (AFP) – It’s been nearly three years since a white police officer put his knee on George Floyd’s neck, asphyxiating the African-American man and sparking mass protests against racism and police violence. As the anniversary approaches of the May 25, 2020 killing — which was captured on video and went viral around the world — AFP came back to ask his aunt, a protester, […]
Washington, United States | AFP | Friday 4/8/2023 by Inès BEL AIBA US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday showered attention on three Tennessee officials targeted for expulsion from the state legislature over their support for gun control, as the fracas escalated into a major national row over race and representation. Biden spoke via phone with the “Tennessee Three” and “thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault […]
London, United Kingdom (AFP) Racism has been experienced by players at all levels of elite rugby in England, according to a survey published by the Rugby Football Union. It comes as an independent investigation found that former England centre Luther Burrell was the victim of racial abuse during his time at English top-flight club Newcastle. Burrell, who is of Jamaican descent, said he was subjected to comments about slavery, bananas and fried chicken, adding that […]
Sydney, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s National Rugby League vowed Friday to rid the sport of racism after South Sydney’s Indigenous fullback Latrell Mitchell was racially abused. A slur was hurled from the crowd as the 25-year-old left the field at half-time during a 16-10 defeat at the Penrith Panthers on Thursday. NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo, who told reporters that the governing body is working with police to establish the full facts, called any abuse […]
SELMA, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday stressed the importance of knowing the whole of US history, both “good” and “bad,” as he commemorated the brutal suppression 58 years ago of a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. “History matters,” the president said during a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where a march of hundreds of peaceful activists was violently suppressed by police on March 7, 1965. “Bloody Sunday” only catalyzed […]
