UN rights chief releases report sparked by George Floyd’s death

After George Floyd’s death, a group of African countries asked the United Nations Human Rights Commission to create an independent body to investigate police brutality in the US. The High Commissioner for Human Rights decided to issue a report about police brutality everywhere, after pressure from the US. A year later, that report was finally released. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, it concludes that police brutality toward people of African descent has been allowed to continue with impunity.

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