The group is hoping the U.N. will agree that the U.S. is violating human rights and recommend changes to use-of-force standards.
Ted Womack was 16 when he was first followed by police, he said. He had been playing basketball at his local YMCA, and a fight broke out in the parking lot between people he didn’t know. He started walking home, but noticed a police car following him, he said. He sat down on the curb. The car’s lights lit up.
He said it was the first of at least 100 unprovoked interactions with the police. They would ask him what he was doing in places, he said, and want to detain him because they were looking for somebody else, or “just because they can.”“I wanted to be able to make sure that no other teenager would have their first police encounter be something that would make them look at police and not feel like they can help them,” he said.
They are asking the United Nations Human Rights Committee to consider excessive use of force by American law enforcement officers as a violation ofMany in the delegation will be testifying to experiences with border patrol officers in particular, including Janine Bouey, a Black woman from Los Angeles who said she was pulled out of line while returning to the U.S. and sexually assaulted by U.S. border agents because she refused the advances of an officer.
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