UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called for an “impartial” probe into the fatal police shootings of black men this week in the US. He also condemned the subsequent killing of five police officers in Dallas, saying there is no justification for such violence.
Ban, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, said those responsible for the killings of the five police officers during a rally in Dallas yesterday “compounded the suffering that many in the United States feel following the killing of two African-American men over two days.
Chair of the UN expert panel on people of African descent Ricardo Sunga also condemned the killings of the two African-American men by police, saying the incidents demonstrate “a high level of structural and institutional racism”.