US afflicted with ‘third world’ police says author Marlon James
Speaking in Paris, the Jamaica-born Man Booker prize-winner compared US police to Argentina state-sanctioned death squads
The United States is afflicted with third World police which has led to almost state-sanctioned killings of people from minority groups, one of the countrys leading black writers said on Sunday.
Marlon James, who won the Man Booker prize last year for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, told a literary festival in Paris that some officers thought themselves above the law, comparing them to death squads during the dirty war run by Argentinas military rulers in the 1970s.