People in the United States hold a demonstration to protest the shooting death of a black teenager by a white policeman last month.
The demonstrators took to the streets in Washington and Iowa on Saturday to condemn police shootings and killings of unarmed minorities.

The protesters repeated the chant "hands up, don't shoot."

The 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by Darren Wilson on August 9 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was unarmed and held his arms up while he was shot several times by the officer.

"Here in Iowa, we want to think that we're safe from all this, we're safe from all this racial division, racial tension, but we have the third-worst rate of racial disparity incarceration in the country," one protester said.

"It brings a realistic perspective for people who just sit and watch these things in front of their television," another protester said.

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation related to the shooting.

On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the federal civil rights probe of the police department of Ferguson, citing a �deep mistrust� between officers and residents.

Holder said the investigation would determine whether officers in Ferguson had �engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of the US Constitution or federal law.�

Brown�s death has reignited the national debate surrounding racial discrimination and police brutality in the United States.

Civil rights activists say the US has a strong degree of institutionalized racism against African-Americans and other minorities.

By Press TV

 

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