US: Stop Using Untrained, Abusive Agencies at Protests

Click to expand Image U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on February 9, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – The United States federal government should immediately stop deploying federal agents without relevant training or those from abusive agencies to protests across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The protests have focused on deadly police violence against Black people and structural racism in the United States. On June 2, 2020, the US government deployed officers from nearly a…

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