Question

Recent worldwide protests against police racism and brutality and the toppling of statues commemorating white supremacists have little relevance to the International Law discipline because its founding and evolution over the years have been neutral about the historical legacy of systemic racism and the enduring inequalities it has created.

a. True

b. False

Answer 1

True, as according to me in some countries, common ground with the U.S. is not hard to find. In France, where young Arab and black men are 20 times as likely as white men to be stopped by police, thousands of people have taken to the streets of Paris, Marseilles, Lyon and Lille. Many are protesting in the name of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old Malian-French man who died in police custody in 2016. While police say officers are not responsible for his death, an independent autopsy commissioned by Traoré’s family ruled on June 2 that he died of asphyxiation as a result of violent arrest.