Philonise Floyd speaks via video to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, weeks after the killing of his brother George incited widespread protests against police brutality. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet looks on behind her face mask.Martial Trezzini/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
"My brother, George Floyd, is one of the many black men and women that have been murdered by police in recent years. The sad truth is that the case is not unique," Philonise Floyd told the U.N. Human Rights Council in a remote address Wednesday. "I'm asking you to help him. I'm asking you to help me," he added."I am asking you to help us: black people in America.", commissions of inquiry are in effect fact-finding missions. They are aimed at not only gathering information but also recommending"measures to redress violations, provide justice and reparation to victims, and hold perpetrators to account."
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PattyArquette They are using him politically...what a joke!!! The deniers of human rights all over the world! No, you’re still not getting more money!
PattyArquette Finally!
twitter says i am a robot because i am black with opinions
🤣😂 ya the UN will give a F. Maybe Floyd should go see how well the UN did over in Africa.
True history.Whites gave the world genocide,slavery,and colonization their 1 true contribution to d world/didnt bring civilization,art,or science.Actually delayed its emergence for 1k years & later killed/enslaved 1/2 the world to finance/tk credit for a few tainted contributions
So we are no longer a sovereign nation and we are ruled by a Global council? 🤦
It's really pathetic BlackLivesMattters
YOU ARE FAKE NEWS.
I had a dream George Floyd on a white horse Galloping towards Toussaint, Dessalines, Bolivar, Lincoln, Fidel, and some Indian heroes. Rudel Simon - Poet
LMPD do something !!! Arrest the killers of BreonnaTaylor
Yeah its sad that he didn’t have the self control to not use fentanyl and meth poor guy died from a heart attack very sad
THATS BULL!YOU WERENT HIGH ON COCAINE& RESISTING ARREST!BUT EVEN IF U WERE, I STILL BELIEVE NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO PUT A KNEE TO YOUR NECK. PERIOD. BUT PLEASE, DONT SAY THAT RESISTING ARREST AGGRESSION ONLY HAPPENS TO BLACKS. WE'VE SEE ALL VIDEOS& COLOUR DOESNT CHANGE ANYTHING.
Minneapolis has a policy for their cops to choke people. That includes knees on necks like what happened to George Floyd. Oh yeah, Minneapolis has been controlled by Democrats for 40 years.
The UN really helped Rwanda alot. If i was there, those cops would have been disarmed and detained. Why were people filming and not intervening? Because it was staged.
Going to the UN is about as useful as posting on Facebook. It'll get alot of 'likes' from supporters...and that's about it.
Hey manlets at NPR- if you wanna protect black people start with ones who aren’t career criminal pieces of shit. This guy was a good man murdered in the name of your Saint George. Thanks a lot guys :)
Did certain members of the UN HRC laugh and invite you to their countries to “work”?
False
“ he conversation unfolded without an official U.S. representative present, because the Trump administration withdrew from the Human Rights Council roughly two years ago” Typical. It’s commendable for Mr. Floyd to do this while his family is in mourning.
Mr Floyd’s brother ,that a God fearing (I’m sure he is now) man such as your brother should be treated in the manner that he was after all the good that he gave and all the good deeds that he did all the while committing 9 felonies we think all you folks should up and leave
Duh. Y’all (commenters) hush. All these negative comments prove to the international community what a bunch of uneducated brutes Americans are believed to be.
Philonise did your brother ever commit crimes?
Cry me a river. A black drug addict criminal is dead. Good.
Has anyone noticed that almost all victims of 'police brutality' were resisting arrest? Want to survive a police encounter? Do what they say! If you didn't do anything, let the courts sort it out. If the cop was racially motivated, SUE HIS ASS!! Don't resist and you stay alive!
So a few months ago it was essential for Americans to lose their gun rights and to argue was absurd since it was impossible that a globalist force would threaten Americans. Well then.
Why is this fool talking to the UN? They have no knowledge of world policing apparently. There are open air slave markets in Libya right now. All who refuse to acknowledge actual slavery & supported Obama's international drone murder program are similar to poop.
Not all black people. He shouldn’t speak for us all.
In 2019: 9 unarmed black men were killed by police. 7000+ black men were killed by other black men..
Yikes.
Lol telling this to countries on the council like Pakistan Qutar and Saudi Arabia who still think honor killing are fine.
The UN can fuck right off
Those four cops are murderers. Plane and obvious and simple. None of them tried to safe a man that was unarmed, and not resisting arrest. All four should be charged with murder. Period. Teach cops that racism is NOT allowed, ethical, human. Fire racists cops. Stop the craziness.
You know the Upper Middle Class White Liberals NPR don't want anyone to see Ahmaud Arbery's mother praising POTUS.
Oof.
It's a tragedy what happened to Floyd, but to conflate what happened to him to what typically happens to black people is absurd. All it does is increase fear and resentment where it shouldn't belong.
The UN human rights council has some of the worst offenders of human rights on the planet.
It is time we ask for legal help from the international community of the treatment of Blacks in America. Help!
It could have been you? It depends. Or are you suggesting that you also deal with counterfeit, do drugs, while still having very serious underlying health conditions?
A decaying country, full of lies, violence and corruption.