Parents of US black victims want justice

The family members of unarmed black men killed by police recently have criticized the US Justice Department, demanding justice over their cases.

The parents of Michael Brown and Eric Garner once again called for federal investigation into the police fatal shooting of their sons.

“I’m here to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone else’s family,” Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., said on Thursday.

The civil rights organizations urged the Justice Department to intervene in the investigations of the police officers responsible for the deaths.

The 18-year-old Brown was shot dead by a police officer in Missouri’s Ferguson in August.

In July, Garner, 43, died of a heart attack following a confrontation with police on Staten Island, New York.

“It’s time we got justice for these heinous crimes,” Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, said.

In an interview with Press TV last week, African-American political commentator Randy Short said the family members of black people killed by US police are offered millions of dollars to be silent and not to demand justice.

Reverend Al Sharpton’s job is to “go around and offer money. It’s almost a lottery. If a black family takes a pay off, they can get millions of dollars for being silent if they allow their family members to be murdered. So it’s a big industry,” he said.

“Groups like the Cochran Firm specialize in getting blacks to not demand full justice and freedom by taking money to be quite,” he added.

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