Action Blast: Stop the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People Contact President Obama and the Department of Justice Now

In the first six months of 2012, one Black person every 36 hours was executed in the United States. Since January 1, 2012, police and a much smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have murdered at least 140 Black women, men and children.

This epidemic constitutes an egregious human rights crisis that the Federal Government has a fundamental obligation to address. As party to the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) the United States government has an obligation to protect the lives of racial minorities. The government is also obligated under various civil rights laws and executive orders to protect the lives of African Americans.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement urges you to demand that the White House and the Department of Justice take the following corrective measures to respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of African Americans:

1. A Federal investigation into the civil and human rights violations taking place with the impunity of local police forces throughout the country.

2. A Federal review of the rules of engagement authorizing the use of deadly force being employed by police forces throughout the country.

3. The creation of a Federal database, in line with the 2008 CERD Committee recommendations, that documents cases of extrajudicial killings and acts of police brutality against racial minorities throughout the United States.

4. The issuing of Federal injunctions against those police departments where two or more extrajudicial killings of Black people have occurred over the past nine months.

5. The issuing of Federal consent decree’s authorizing the creation of locally elected Police Control Boards in cities and/or counties that demonstrate patterns of systemic racial profiling, brutality, and extrajudicial killing.

6. The creation of a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice to eliminate institutional racism and its expressions in racial profiling, police brutality, extrajudicial killing, mass incarceration and discrimination in housing, educational access, health care, employment, banking and credit markets.

Please call or email the White House and the Department of Justice at the addresses provided below and make your voice heard.

White House
202.456.1111 Comment Line
202.456.2461 Fax Number
To email the White House use the following link http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

Department of Justice (DOJ)
202.353.1555
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

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Oct201230

ernesto

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