Posted on 09/03/2013 8:29:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Special Rapporteur on racism Mutuma Ruteere
A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of the United State to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, an African –American teenager who was shot in 2012 by a neighbourhood watchman in the state of Florida.
“We call upon the US Government to examine its laws that could have discriminatory impact on African Americans, and to ensure that such laws are in full compliance with the country’s international legal obligations and relevant standards,” said human rights expert Verene Shepherd, who currently heads the UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent.
The death of Trayvon Martin sparked a new debate about racial profiling in the United States after the unarmed black 17-year-old was shot and killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman. Mr. Zimmerman, who argued that he acted in self-defence and with justifiable use of deadly force, was found not guilty of all charges against him.
The US Department of Justice, the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are currently evaluating the evidence generated during the federal investigation, as well as the evidence and testimony from the state trial, trying to establish potential civil rights charges linked to the case.
“The Trayvon Martin case has highlighted the importance of the need to review those existing laws and policies that can have a discriminatory effect on the basis of race, as African Americans become more vulnerable to such discrimination,” Ms. Shepherd said, recalling that the US has been party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights since 1992, the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination since 1994, and many other international human rights law treaties.
“States are required to take effective measures to review governmental, national and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists,” said the Special Rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere.
According to the 2011 US Department of Justice Hate Crime Statistics, 71.9 per cent of the total number of victims of hate crimes reported to the nation’s law enforcement agencies were victims of an offender’s anti-black bias. In a 2012 survey, the local non-governmental organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement found that at least 136 unarmed African Americans were killed by police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes over the course of a single year.
On honest review (meaning the MSM will not touch it)
black on white murders are off the chart around the USA
because of Holder and Obama, and now the victim
crackers are told to just lie still and die, already.
The un is such a bastion of human rights....
it is wrapped up, his killing was obviously justified.
Dear UN;
I suggest that you explore why 1400 people have been gassed in Syria, and by whom!
No three weeks of living in luxury hotels, eating escargot, but a 24/7 full blown investigation before the world goes to war.
And, as a side note, Trayvon Martin the late teenage punk, go STFU!
Whatever. Would you rather be subjected to profiling in this nation or have a burning tire places around your neck, while being hacked to death with a machete in Mother Africa? You can also enjoy the famine and disease while you wait for your wretched end.
Dear UN,
The jurors wrapped up that investigation weeks ago. There findings can be found online. Google it.
Sincerely;
USA
George Zimmerman
Trayvon Martin
Trayvon lived like a thug and died like a thug.
Well stated,TE.
The "Just-us" Department has said that only protected minorities can be the victims of hate crimes.
So who is picking on all of these black people?
UN EXPERTS? What makes them experts?
“We call upon the US Government to examine its laws that could have discriminatory impact on African Americans, and to ensure that such laws are in full compliance with the country’s international legal obligations and relevant standards...”
Internationalist crapola; the US government need only comply with the strictures laid out in our own constitution - not that it’s happening under Obama, who regularly uses the constitution to wipe his backside.
Thanks, exit82. The UN can pound rough gravel.
Well this “expert” urges the u.n. to stick it where the sun don’t shine and GTFO of my country and business. (Well, I guess the sun does shine on some their a$$e$ since they normally have their heads in the sand. When not up their a$$e$.) Nice waste of American tax dollars.
Wouldn’t it be nice to live long enough to see the US out of the UN and the UN kicked out of New York.
Should have seen this coming.
Actual guilt is of absolutely no consequence, and anyone who says it is, is racist.
OK, review complete.
Move on.
It is wrapped up. NOT GUILTY by a jury of his piers. End of story.
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