Michael Brown’s Parents to Speak Before UN Committee

The parents of slain Ferguson teenager Michael Brown are slated to speak before the United Nations Committee Against Torture this week, and will be joined by several other Ferguson protestors. Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden traveled to Switzerland today and will speak before the committee later this week.

The committee, according to The Washington Post, will be discussing issues like torture and police brutality. Brown’s parents will speak out on racial profiling and human rights violations in Ferguson.

They set up a Ferguson to Geneva website, branding this appearance as as opportunity “not only to achieve justice in Ferguson, but to unite governments around the world against the human rights violations that result from racial profiling and police violence.”

Meanwhile, the Ferguson grand jury is expected to decide very soon whether Officer Darren Wilson will be charged in Brown’s death.

Watch below, via USA Today:

[h/t USA Today]
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