Activist Groups, Families Hurt By U.S. Police Brutality Demand Independent UN Report

The ACLU, families of victims and hundreds of civic groups demanded the U.N. independently investigate police brutality against Black people in America.

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined hundreds of civil organizations and families harmed by police violence in urging the U.N. Human Rights Council to independently investigate police killings of Black women and men in the U.S., as well as violent police responses to antiracist protests. The coalition of activists and affected family members put their demands in a joint letter to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that was released Monday morning. “Police violence is not a uniquely American problem, but the impunity and disproportionate killing of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people at the hands of law enforcement are, and it requires the entire international community to act,” Jamil Dakwar, head of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, said in a statement.