The parents of Michael Brown stood Tuesday before a United Nations committee on torture and asked it to request the immediate arrest of the police officer who fatally shot their son.
Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. took the trip from Ferguson, Missouri, to Geneva, Switzerland, to speak personally to the U.N. Committee Against Torture about Brown’s killing and the force used by police officers in the protests that followed, CNN reported.
“We need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson and we need justice,” Mrs. McSpadden said. “We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what’s going on in small town Ferguson.”
The Brown family requested that the U.N. panel recommend the immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, as well as an end to “racial profiling and racially-biased police harassment across the jurisdictions surrounding Ferguson,” CNN reported.
The trip, organized by the U.S. Human Rights Network, comes as Ferguson braces for a St. Louis County grand jury to determine whether Officer Wilson will be indicted.
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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