US police brutality hints to genocide of blacks: Lawyer

An international lawyer has slammed the US police for taking “unlawful and criminal” measures against demonstrators protesting against the shooting dead of an African-American teenager.

“And there are studies which show that the predominant policy – and this is a secret policy within the intelligence agencies of the United States government – is genocide toward the black population,” Alfred Lambremont Webre, an international lawyer from Vancouver, told Press TV in an interview on Monday.

“The actions by the policemen in this case are unlawful and they are a criminal action; they could be manslaughter; they could be murder and they are violation of the constitutional rights of the deceased,” Webre added.

The lawyer stated that the US police department “holds itself above the law and does not want its actions or its members submitted to a legal process and that is increasingly the case in the United States.”

He went on to say that in New York City, racial profiling is a statistical fact and stop-and-frisk is based on race.

The commentator also stated that the “police authorities and the national authorities including President [Barack] Obama should be put on notice that the world is watching the United States as fascistic unlawful police behavior becomes the norm.”

On August 9, a white police officer shot multiple times and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri. Since then, protests over the fatal shooting have been held in the predominantly African-American town every night.

Riot police have cracked down on the protests, using tear gas, stun grenades and gunfire.

An autopsy carried out on the body of the victim has shown that he was shot at least six times from very close range.

According to reports, Brown was shot in the head twice. The other four bullets struck him in the right arm and all six were fired into his front.