Geneva, June 19 (RHC)-- In Geneva, the brother of George Floyd has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up a commission of inquiry into racism and police brutality in the United States.

Philonise Floyd spoke by video link from Atlanta.  He said: “When people dared to raise their voice and protest for my brother, they were tear-gassed, run over with police vehicles.  Several people lost eyes and suffered brain damage to rubber bullets.  Peaceful protesters were shot and killed by police.  Journalists were beaten and blinded when they tried to show the world the brutality happening at the protests.  When people raise their voices to protest the treatment of Black people in America, they are silenced.  They are shot and killed.”

There was no United States representative present as Philonise Floyd spoke, since the Trump administration withdrew the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018.