Black lives do not matter in US: George Floyd's kin

Geneva: The brother of George Floyd, the unarmed African-American man killed last month under police custody in Minneapolis, said that "black lives do not matter in the United States of America".

"The officers showed no mercy, no humanity, and tortured my brother to death in the middle of the street in Minneapolis with a crowd of witnesses watching and begging them to stop- showing us black people the same lesson yet again- black lives do not matter in the United States of America," Philonise Floyd told a UN Human Rights Council debate on Wednesday via video conference.

"My family and I have had to watch the last moments of his life when he was tortured to death including the eight minutes and 46 seconds one officer kept his knee on my brother's neck.

"My brother begged the officers for his life, cried out for our mama who was already dead, and said over and over again, 'I can't breathe'," he recalled.

Philonise Floyd told the UN rights body that none of the police officers were fired for murdering his brother until masses of people in the US and around the world protested the injustice. (IANS)

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