Posted on 11/01/2014 4:43:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Next month, Lesley McSpadden will travel to the Swiss city to seek justice for her own son Michael Brown.
The mother of an unarmed black 18-year-old shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri is to take her sons case to the United Nations in Geneva.
Accompanied by family lawyers and human rights activists, Lesley McSpadden will travel to the Swiss city next month to testify on her own son Michael Brown, shot by Officer Darren Wilson this August in Feguson, Missouri, and other victims of police violence, to the UN Committee of Torture.
"It's actually covered by article one of the convention against torture," Justin Hansford, a law professor at Saint Louis University and co-author of a brief to the UN body filed by Brown's family and local activists, told VICE News. "When the government has all the guns, all the force, and when they can kill people with impunity and without fear of being found guilty of a crime, that's a classic example of state violence."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at telesurtv.net ...
Un in Geneva? Not a bad idea get them out of us
Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be gangstas.
He didn’t die in Geneva.
Moms must have seen the whole thing.
What idiot is hosting this farce and who is paying for the trip?
Has anyone informed her that Geneva is full of White people?
Gonna axe em fo justice.
Imagine how gleeful the real dictators and torturers are at the relentless dumbing down of the concept of “torture” by useful idiots like this.
Ridiculous hogwash! Compared to the number of guns in private hands the government doesn't have diddly squat. Another stupid argument crushed by reality.
Wow, man...I’ve been looking everywhere, and I can’t find the satire tag...
Better hide those nice watches.
Of course they won’t bother to invite police officers shot by perps, or family members of police officers killed by criminals.
“Unarmed black.”
“Nobody is ever unarmed if they have arms”...I remember that saying from 30 years ago and it rings so true with this case. It’s a silly sounding quote but it’s the hardcore truth. Bare hands can kill just as much as a gun which is why we have this invention called “handcuffs”.
The $1,400 stolen from Granny?
So who is paying for this trip?
To Geneva SWITZERLAND????? LOL!!!!! Her son was a THUG!!!!! A FREAKING NO GOOD THUG!!!!! That ATTACKED A POLICEMAN!!! A COMMITTED A STRONG ARMED ROBBERY MINUTES BEFORE!!!! SHe’s lucky he didn’t kill HER!! OMG!!! The world is crazy...SWITZERLAND!!!!!! They would nt even allow her to LIVE in SWITZERKAND.......OMG!!
Will they be able to understand her?
It’s “gwine ax em...”
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