Black Americans going to the UN over killings

[Trajan]

As outraged residents of Ferguson, Missouri continue to protest a police shooting that left unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown dead, Ron Davis – the father of another slain black teen in Jacksonville, Florida – is aiming to shame the United States before the United Nations for what he says are murders committed with impunity against young black men.

Davis' bid comes amid efforts in Ferguson to build a more-than-a-century-old civil rights movement in response to Brown's killing that community leaders say never took hold in the Greater St. Louis area.

At the 85th meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday and Thursday, Davis hopes to pressure Washington to bolster efforts to stop the phenomenon of what he and the United States Human Rights Network (USHRN), the NGO backing him, call “the criminalization of race” in America.

The U.S. will be forced at the meeting to answer questions from Davis and the international community in what the American Civil Liberties Union told the press Wednesday was a singular opportunity to hold Washington accountable.

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[MostReal]

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Finish Malcoms work

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

 

[88m3]

 

[wire28]

This really might be the start y'all

 

[The 2020 New Member]

With a black president

I support this completely.

 

[RAX 010]

Its About damn Time

 

[newworldafro]

what exactly are they hoping to achieve? or what do they expect the UN to do?

 

[Jhoon]

what exactly are they hoping to achieve? or what do they expect the UN to do?

Fools dont even know what the u n is the foreign arm of the white house.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[69 others]

This really might be the start y'all

what might start what are you hoping to happen with this.

 

[69 others]

 

[ltheghost]

Yeah it would be nice to get a resolution but it's not going to stop these out of control trigger happy cops in America. It's too late to turn back the clocks on their out of control use of force.

 

[Blackking]

until they fear punishment for doing things like this..... then wtf is the UN going to do. I support the efforts, but we live better than most of the world, so the world probably won't do shyt when we present it.

If the goal is to put the US on blast, then i guess.... that goal can be met this way.

If the goal is results,, I'd say teaching our own youth..... and hunting down prominent cacs and people like darren wilson etc.. and taking care of them would be better.