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Letter Asks UN Human Rights Council to Investigate U.S. Police Brutality Against Black Americans
On 5/10/21 at 10:01 AM EDT
Nearly a year after George Floyd s death inspired protests in the U.S. and around the world, families of Black Americans who died after encounters with law enforcement are calling upon the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent commission of inquiry into police violence against the country s Black citizens.
This isn t the first time the U.N. s HRC has been presented with such a request in fact, it received a similar one last June in the immediate aftermath of Floyd s death. But the HRC ultimately launched a global inquiry into systemic racist policing practices instead of focusing on practices within the U.S.
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Tamir Rice accused
Tamika Mallory and other activists and lawyers in the broader movement for Black lives of “monopolizing” the fight for racial justice, following a series of social media posts after Mallory’s cameo at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
Left to right: Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice; and activist Tamika D. Mallory. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Samaria Rice addressed Mallory, a long-time activist, on Facebook and accused her, the Black Lives Matter organization and prominent civil rights attorneys of monetizing off the deaths of Black people. Mallory is not a leader within the official BLM organization but runs her own social justice group,
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