Philonise Floyd, brother of slain George Floyd, asks U.N. to investigate police brutality and racist violence against Black Americans
The brother of the late George Floyd has asked the United Nations to investigate police brutality and racial discrimination in the United States.
"Black lives do not matter in the United States," George Floyd's brother said at the United Nations Wednesday.
"My brother tortured and murdered on camera is the way black people are treated by police in America."
"I'm asking you to help him. I'm asking you to help me," George Floyd's brother, Philonise, said to the UN Human Rights Council. "I am asking you to help us: Black people in America."
"I am asking you to help us, black people in America." George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, called for the U.N. Human Rights Council to create an independent commission to study the killing of black people by the police in the U.S.
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From NPR News' coverage of his address to the U.N. Human Rights Council:
On Wednesday, more than three weeks after Floyd's killing, his brother raised a voice on his behalf in a message to international diplomats.
"My brother, George Floyd, is one of the many black men and women that have been murdered by police in recent years. The sad truth is that the case is not unique," Philonise Floyd told the U.N. Human Rights Council in a remote address Wednesday.
"The way you saw my brother tortured and murdered on camera is the way black people are treated by police in America. You watched my brother die. That could have been me."
During a quickly convened session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Floyd asked the group to set up a commission of inquiry into racism and police brutality in the United States - specifically "police killings of black people and America and the violence used against peaceful protesters."
"I'm asking you to help him. I'm asking you to help me," he added. "I am asking you to help us: black people in America."
Under U.N. guidelines, commissions of inquiry are in effect fact-finding missions. They are aimed at not only gathering information but also recommending "measures to redress violations, provide justice and reparation to victims, and hold perpetrators to account."
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George Floyd's family appeals to the United Nations for justice.
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"Black lives do not matter in the United States," George Floyd's brother said at the United Nations Wednesday. https://t.co/sFoXI5FA9f
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