Racial justice protests have spread from the United States to Europe, including this mid-June 2020 demo in Strasbourg, eastern France (AFP Photo/PATRICK HERTZOG) |
Brussels
(AFP) - The European Parliament voted Friday to declare that "Black Lives
Matter" and to denounce racism and white supremacism in all its forms.
The
resolution has no legal consequences but sends a signal of support to
anti-racism protesters, and it follows a UN call for a probe into police
brutality and "systemic racism."
And, one day
before President Donald Trump is to hold a rally in Tulsa, a city that saw one
of the worst racist massacres in US history, the lawmakers condemned American
police brutality.
Point
number one of the text of the resolution takes up the slogan US campaigners
painted on the street leading to the White House, when it "Affirms that
Black Lives Matter."
The
resolution, passed by 493 votes to 104, "strongly condemns the appalling
death of George Floyd", an unarmed suspect killed by US police in May.
The EU
parliament resolution also rebuked President Donald Trump for his
"inflammatory
rhetoric" and for threatening to deploy the army
against protesters (AFP Photo/Angela Weiss)
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It rebukes
Trump for his "inflammatory rhetoric" and for threatening to deploy
the army against protesters.
And EU
member states themselves, many of which have seen protests in recent days about
modern racism and previous colonial crimes, are not spared in the motion.
EU capitals
are urged to denounce "the disproportionate use of force and racist
tendencies in law enforcement."
The EU
institutions and the member states should officially acknowledge past
injustices and crimes against humanity committed against black people, people
of colour and Roma.
And the
resolution declares the slave trade a "crime against humanity."
Earlier
Friday, the UN Human Rights Council demanded a report on "systemic
racism", but left out any direct mention of the United States in the
resolution.
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