Geneva: United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has welcomed the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial.
"This is a momentous verdict. It is also a testament to the courage and perseverance of George Floyd’s family and many others in calling for justice. As the jury recognised, the evidence in this case was crystal clear. Any other result would have been a travesty of justice," said Bachelet in a statement on Wednesday.
Accordiing to reports, the white former Minneapolis police officer was convicted on Tuesday of murdering the 46-year-old African American man in May of last year.
Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Mr. Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, sparking mass protests globally against racism.
"But for countless other victims of African descent and their families, in the United States and throughout the world, the fight for justice goes on. The battle to get cases of excessive force or killings by police before the courts, let alone win them, is far from over," she stated.
"Impunity for crimes and human rights violations by law enforcement officers must end, and we need to see robust measures to prevent further arbitrary killings. As we have painfully witnessed in recent days and weeks, reforms to policing departments across the US continue to be insufficient to stop people of African descent from being killed. It is time to move on from talk of reform to truly rethinking policing as currently practised in the US and elsewhere," she added.
According to him, the practice of policing in the US and elsewhere must be rethought with a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to dismantle systemic racism.
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