US moves to end racial profiling

US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced plans
to “help end racial profiling once and for all”.
He was speaking in Atlanta in the wake of mass protests
surrounding the shooting dead of unarmed black teenager
Michael Brown by a white policeman.
Holder was speaking at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta where Martin Luther King preached.
President Barack Obama has requested funds to improve
training and provide body cameras for the police.
The shooting of Brown in August in Ferguson, Missouri,
has reignited tension over relations between young
African-Americans and the police.
Most of Ferguson’s police are white, while the town’s
residents are mainly black.
A grand jury’s decision last week not to charge police
officer Darren Wilson over Brown’s death sparked
violence across the US.
A mass walkout was held on Monday as employees
stopped work and students left classes.
Holder was in Atlanta to meet law enforcement officials
and community leaders at the request of President
Obama.
In a speech during a forum titled “The Community
Speaks”, Holder said that the police cannot be seen as an
“occupying force”. The issue, he said, was larger than just
the police in the community.
“Our overall system of justice must be strengthened and it
must be made more fair,” he said.