Rapporteurs 'strongly condemn' the killing of the 3 African Americans, call for 'systemic reform and justice'. FMTNews UN
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones and attorney S Lee Merritt leave a courthouse.
Their statement said a number of the killings displayed a “particular disregard or depravity toward human life, and the use of public spaces to assert racial control, each characteristic of lynching.” The 12 special rapporteurs, three working groups on rights issues and the chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said they “strongly condemn” the killing of all three and called for “systemic reform and justice”.
A witness told a court this week that McMichael used a racial slur after shooting him, calling him a “f****** n*****”.
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