Police killing unarmed black men - Virulent racism

FIFTY years ago last month, when Martin Luther King led thousands of non-violent protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, the civil rights movement was born out of a vicious police onslaught on the demonstrators amid what began as a campaign for votes for African Americans. 

Fifty years on, a majority of the American people have re-elected Barak Obama, a black man, as their president. But the police remain in the eye of the storm over a string of killings of unarmed black men.

Were it not for the fact that a video was made by a witness of the latest shooting, it would probably be just another statistic.

However, with a murder charge now hanging over the officer who shot his victim eight times as he was running away, protest marches are once again taking place in America.

Amid mounting allegations of police racism, the large discrepancy in the number of unarmed black men gunned down by policemen, leaves little doubt that the black community still faces a life-and-death struggle on the tortuous path to civil rights.

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