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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara talks with Michael Wilson on the third anniversary of George Floyd's death, May 25, 2023. [AP Photo]
In a no-holds-barred report submitted to the United Nations human rights council Thursday, U.N. human rights experts have called for urgent reform of the U.S. criminal justice system to combat what they say is systemic racism and racial discrimination against people of African descent.
The 32-page report found that racism in the United States, a legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, continues to exist today in the form of racial profiling, police killings and other human rights violations.
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