_This statement is issued by independent experts* of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council:_ The recent killing of George Floyd has shocked many in the world, but it is the lived reality of black people across the United States. The uprising nationally is a protest against systemic racism that produces state-sponsored racial violence, and licenses impunity for this violence. The uprising also reflects public frustration and protest against the many other glaring manifestations of systemic racism that have been impossible to ignore in the past months…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 05 June 2020. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
