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The problem in the United States is that the police are killing members of the African-American community with impunity, an analyst tells Press TV.

“The problem is the impunity in which the police assault and kill especially black men on the streets of American cities and they do it whether cameras are on or whether they are off,” said Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report from New Jersey, in an interview with Press TV.

“There is a failure to indict them whether there are cameras or not and even in those very rare cases in which police are indicted, they are almost never convicted,” he stated.

Ford said that the “lack of community power over police is the problem,” adding that cameras are just “incidentals.”

Protests have erupted across the United States after a grand jury recently refused to indict a white police officer in the choking death of a black man, prompting activists to announce a national march to the capital to decry Washington’s failure to bring justice for African Americans.

The choke hold death of Eric Garner, a father of six and grandfather of two, was recorded on videos that have been widely seen and have contributed to the public outrage.

The analyst further noted that “the murders of black men always occur in quick succession, with regularity, routinely and that is the social crisis in the United States.”

Based on a recent study by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, 313 black people were killed in the United States in 2012 by police officers, private security guards and members of the public, and in most cases, the perpetrator was not indicted.