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’s state-sanctioned death squads

The US is afflicted with “third world police”, which has led to “almost state-sanctioned” killings of people from minority groups, one of the country’s leading black writers has said.

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 Argentina’s military rulers in the 1970s.

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