The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has condemned the police crackdown on protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In an interview with Reuters, Navi Pillay said the United States should “cherish … people’s right to protest.” Pillay also compared the clashes in Ferguson to those sparked by apartheid in her native South Africa, saying, “These scenes are familiar to me, and privately I was thinking that there are many parts of the United States where apartheid is flourishing.”