Racial and economic inequality is the root cause of the current protest movement that is spreading across the United States, says an American political commentator and activist in Maryland.
US police arrested at least 150 people on Wednesday who were protesting against the death of an African-American man in police custody in Baltimore.
Twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray died of severe spinal injuries on April 19, a week after he was arrested and detained by Baltimore police.
Since then, tens of thousands of Americans have taken to the streets across the country. Protests have been largely peaceful, but in some cases they turned violent.
“I would say that the root cause has been the inequality regarding black Americans and other people of color and those in the lower economic strata of American society,” Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Thursday.
“The rules are written against the poor, the minorities–the working class of America,” he added.