The administration of US President Donald Trump has “given the green light” to police departments to continue using lethal force and violence against civilians, which has become “a national crisis,” an African American journalist in Detroit says.
“Two efforts on the part of the Trump administration is making the situation even worse,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
The analyst was referring to two measures put in place by the US Justice Department that reverses restrictions on the transfer of some surplus military equipment to police departments, as well as rolling back a program to help reform police departments.
The recent changes rescinds limits created by the administration of former President Barack Obama amid a national debate over police brutality touched off by a spate of high-profile deaths of black men at the hands of the police.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who heads the Justice…