Posted on 11/12/2014 4:25:13 PM PST by digger48
The parents of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Missouri man who was shot by Officer Darren Wilson following an altercation, spoke before a UN Committee yesterday, pleading for the world to note what was happening in Ferguson and around the country. Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. spoke to the United Nations Committee Against Torture -- which also works against cruel or degrading treatment or punishment by government authorities. CNN: "We need the world to know what's going on in Ferguson and we need justice," McSpadden told CNN in Geneva, Switzerland. "We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what's going on in small town Ferguson."
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(From CNN)
While their testimony to the committee took place behind closed doors, the delegation that organized their trip said the couple would read from a statement submitted by the Brown family and organizations called HandsUpUnited, the Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment.
The document says Brown's killing and force used by police officers during protests that followed the killing "represent violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment."
It requests that the U.N. panel recommend the immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, as well as an end to "racial profiling and racially-biased police harassment across the jurisdictions surrounding Ferguson."
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They are symbiotic with Eeric Holder’s favorite terror group FALN [the ones he had Clinton pardon] and with Obama’s favorite group the Weather Underground.
Traitors.
If young black men are being shot in big numbers, for no reason by white cops, and white Hispanic neighborhood watch people, why do we only hear about Brown and Trayvon?
What astonishes me is that they actually had a great example when John Crawford III in Ohio was killed mere days before Michael Brown was shot. Crawford was essentially minding his own business when some guy called the cops and claimed Crawford was acting threatening; when Crawford saw the cops after him, he panicked, bolted, and was killed.
Happened at Walmart, and just about the whole thing was recorded; someone set it up so you can watch what Crawford's actually doing and compare it to the 911 call, and IMHO the guy calling was setting Crawford up for murder by cop. If he hadn't said Crawford was actively aiming a gun at people, the cops might have given Crawford a better chance to surrender.
But while I consider that a Bad Shoot, I don't think it was entirely the fault of the police, and I don't think the police are regularly murdering black people. I'm just saying that's a much better example of a black guy getting killed for no reason than the deaths of either Travon or Michael Brown.
The kid in Cleveland who got shot running from the cops, Timothy Thomas, is another example where the cops are running on adrenalin and shoot someone who in bolting in panic but isn't actually a threat. It definitely happens. But it isn't nearly as common as some people want to believe. What's weird to me is that it was guys who were definitely out of line -- Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin -- who are lionized, while John Crawford III is, at best, a footnote.
Does the UN have translators of Urban English?
Can I ask a stupid question?
Why only when it is cops or citizens shooting young black men. When it is young black men shooting other young black men- crickets- I know the reason it does not fit the narrative, that cops and citizens (makers/taxpayers/ non criminal) are killing the ybm sensely.
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