Chris Kaba’s Family Back Call for UN to Examine Police Shooting


Chris Kaba’s Family Back Call for UN to Examine Police Shooting

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The UN has been asked to consider the death of Chris Kaba in its global investigation into “police brutality” and racism.

In a move supported by his family, the charity Inquest has submitted detailed concerns over the police shooting of Kaba, an unarmed black man, to the UN human rights office, The Guardian reported

Kaba, 24, was shot in the head in a stationary vehicle after a police pursuit in Streatham Hill, south London, on September 5.

In the same correspondence on Friday, Inquest also outlined its disquiet surrounding the recent death of Oladeji Omishore, 41, who fell off Chelsea Bridge, west London, after being Tasered by officers.

Both cases, involving the Metropolitan Police, prompted widespread fury and demands for a fresh debate on police violence and racism.

The Kaba and Omishore families are keen for the cases to be considered by the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which has examined “police brutality” and human rights “violations by law enforcement against Africans and people of African descent”.

The UN human rights office was tasked in June 2020 – a month after the murder of George Floyd by officers in Minneapolis – to produce a comprehensive report on systemic racism against black people.

A year later the report concluded that member states including the UK needed to end the “impunity” enjoyed by police officers who violate the human rights of black people.

The office is continuing to analyse and “monitor progress on accountability and redress for systemic racism”.

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