MOSCOW (AP) – A senior Russian diplomat says U.S. protests against a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, reflect racial discrimination in the United States that may challenge its stability.
Tuesday’s comments by the Russian Foreign Ministry’s human rights envoy, Konstantin Dolgov, were among the sharpest from a foreign official as images of violent protests in Ferguson topped newscasts around the world.
Officials in most other nations avoided the sensitive subject. In China, where authorities don’t welcome scrutiny of police use of deadly force, the state-run media reported prominently on the Ferguson decision but there was little or no commentary. There also appeared to be moves in China to stifle discussion of the Ferguson news online.