GENEVA - George Floyd's brother was expected to speak before the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday as it holds an urgent debate onAfrican countries are pushing for the Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to investigate racism and police civil liberties violations against people of African descent in the United States.after a white police officer -- since charged with murder -- pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
Last week he made an emotional plea to the US Congress to"stop the pain" and pass reforms that make officers accountable for brutality.-- except if an officer's life is at risk.However, his executive order stopped well short of demands made at nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. The draft resolution being debated in Geneva, introduced by the 54 African countries, condemns ongoing"racial discrimination and violent practices perpetrated by law enforcement agencies against Africans and of people of African descent and structural racism endemic to the criminal justice system in the United States" and elsewhere.