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In a separate letter to governors, also signed by Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), the organizations cautioned against the deployment to protests of forces without adequate training in crowd control, including from the National Guard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cThe United States holds itself out as a rights-respecting nation that others can look up to, but the police abuses against peaceful protesters this summer were nothing to be proud of,\u201d said\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/kenneth-roth\u0022\u003EKenneth Roth\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of Human Rights Watch. \u201cWhen law enforcement officers in the United States commit abuses, they not only violate the rights of people at home but also undermine the US government\u2019s ability to promote respect for rights abroad.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe organizations have documented that between May and September, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in dozens of locations across the country repeatedly interfered with the right of peaceful assembly, resorted to excessive use of force, and conducted mass arbitrary arrests in response to largely peaceful protests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 125 separate incidents in 40 states and the District of Columbia, between May 26 and June 5, Amnesty International-USA found police using excessive force against protesters, including beating protesters, misusing tear gas and pepper spray, and inappropriately and at times indiscriminately firing \u201cless-lethal\u201d projectiles against protesters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cThis summer, police in city after city committed widespread and egregious human rights violations against people protesting the unlawful killings of Black people,\u201d said Bob Goodfellow, interim executive director of Amnesty International-USA. \u201cRather than being a necessary and proportionate response to any specific threat, the use of force became a matter of first resort for any form of resistance, or to enforce a hastily imposed curfew, to end an ongoing demonstration \u2013 or clear a park for a photo op. Real, systemic and lasting police reform and oversight is needed at all levels to ensure that people across the country feel safe to walk the streets and express their opinions freely and peacefully without facing a real threat of harm from the very officers that are supposed to protect them.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt least 115 people suffered head and neck injuries when law enforcement officers shot them with kinetic impact projectiles, such as rubber bullets and bean bag rounds, during the first two months of the George Floyd protests, May 26 to July 27, according to a\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bit.ly\/ShotInTheHead\u0022\u003Evisual investigation\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0by Physicians for Human Rights. The group also\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phr.org\/our-work\/resources\/now-they-just-seem-to-want-to-hurt-us-portland-oregon\/\u0022\u003Edocumented\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0how the Portland Police Bureau and federal agents abused crowd-control weapons and obstructed medical care at the Portland protests, resulting in severe injuries and psychological trauma to both medics and protestors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/10\/21\/us-protect-peaceful-assemblies-limit-use-force\u0022\u003ERead more here \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u00a0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]