United Nations vs Trump

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A United Nations panel has condemned the president’s mealy-mouthed response to the white supremacist protests earlier this month in Virginia. U.N. Panel Condemns Trump’s Response to Charlottesville Violence https://nyti.ms/2vXrqxC

Interestingly enough, this is the same panel that has rebuked ISIS and Burundi in the past few years. Therefore, this UN Panel that Rebuked ISIS Is Now Rebuking America https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/08/23/a-un-panel-just-…

A warning to officials to investigate and root out “racist white supremacist ideas.” UN criticizes US “failure at the highest political level to unequivocally reject racist violent events” https://shar.es/1SGqHW

Racial disparities in policing are vivid in Charlottesville. Black residents are nine times more likely than whites to be stopped by the police. In Charlottesville, black residents 9 times more likely to be stopped by police https://thinkprogress.org/cville-stop-and-frisk-e884d2504656/

Meanwhile, the anti-judge harangue, the attacks on immigrants, the nod to “law and order” while undermining public safety. Trump’s kinship with Arpaio isn’t just due to their racism It’s alarming for the rule of law http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/t…

The Trump administration is expediting a deportation process without protecting basic due process rights. The result isn’t just chaos. It’s injustice. The US deportation system is verging on lawlessness https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/23/immigration-crisi…