Floyd’s family, rights groups call for UN probe

All across the world, there have been several calls for justice in all different areas of humanity and the United Nations is the meeting point of almost all the countries in the world that has always been the organization enforcing the call for effective human rights across the entire world.

Many people have been abused and many more are still under such abuses by the police even in our homes. Down the history line, many black people have been killed in white countries and justice for them seems to be a far reached goal. But the death of George Floyd is changing the whole thing.

This form of injustice has led to a form of a trend that leaves many families and homes broken due to the unwarranted killings of the innocent people by some group of people or the police force as an act of racial discrimination

The recent killing of a black man in America led the American Civil Liberties Union to seek justice and said Floyd’s relatives joined some 600 rights groups to demand the top UN human rights body “urgently” convene a special session to look into a rise of police violence and repression of protests in the US.

A spokesman for the Human Rights Council in Geneva confirmed the council office received a letter on Monday from the groups outlining their call for an independent investigation into the recent killings of unarmed Black people in the US as well as one into “violent law enforcement responses to protests”.

The call included relatives of Floyd and family members of three other Black people who were killed by the police – Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown and Philando Castile.