PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/n5otnkz
Dear United Nations Human Rights Council, Organization of American States Commission on Human Rights, and Secretary of State John Kerry:
The epidemic of discriminatory violent policing and structural racism targeting Black and other communities of color has reached the level of a human rights crisis in the United States. Recently, Madison, WI Police Officer Matt Kenny tragically killed 19-year-old Tony Robinson, fatally shooting him 5 times. And across the country, police are unjustly arresting, harassing, brutalizing and killing Black and brown people with little to no consequence.
The greater Madison, Wisconsin area, including all of Dane County, is home to some of the greatest racial disparities in the United States. The Black unemployment rate is 5 times higher than that of Whites, and 54% of Blacks live in poverty compared to 8.7% of Whites. Black people make up just 4.8% of Dane County’s general population, but 44% of the new jail inmate population, the highest racial arrest disparity in the United States.
As such, I join Freedom, Inc., the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition and their national partners in calling on the United Nations and the Organization of American States, through appropriate Committees, to launch dual independent investigations in Madison, WI:
1) An independent investigation into the death of Tony Robinson at the hands of Madison, WI police officer Matt Kenny;
2) An independent investigation into the persistent and systemic racial disparities and inequities in the greater Madison area (Dane County, Wisconsin), with particular focus on poverty rates and the ways in which the police are used as an occupying force in Black communities in order to maintain those inequities…
PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/n5otnkz
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 