WE CHARGE GENOCIDE DELEGATION, 2014
“We are always unsafe, living in our skin, in this country. It’s a permanent condition”.
This multi-media site augments and extends our case against the Chicago Police Department for its torture and mistreatment of youth of color in Chicago. Here you will find individual stories of victims and survivors of Chicago police violence. You will be able to understand the scope and the impact of this violence by exploring maps, reading testimonies and putting faces to the numbers. Both the report and site are unique and are the result of dozens of hours of work by Chicago residents who have volunteered their time, because they believe that police violence in Chicago must end now.
-Mariame Kaba
The People of WCG Chicago 2014
Here, We Charge Genocide Chicago presents twelve of their stories. They are the stories of children, beloved siblings, young fathers, a grandmother, and one survivor.
| Pedro Rios Jr., 14 | Warren Robinson, 16 | DeSean Pittman, 17 |
| Roshad McIntosh, 19 | Denzel Ford, 19 | George Lash, 19 |
| Pedro Gonzalez III, 21 | Rekia Boyd, 22 | Jamaal Moore, 23 |
| Willie Miller, 25 | William Hope Jr., 25 | Angelique Styles, 60 |
| We Charge Genocide (Chicago) Sends Delegation to United Nations |
| On November 12-14, 2014, We Charge Genocide (WCG) sent a delegation of eight youth to Geneva, Switzerland to present evidence of police violence at the 53rd session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture. The delegation was following up on the submission of the shadow report Police Violence Against Youth of Color, which WCG had published after a period of documentation, research, and collecting testimony, which took place during summer 2014. The goal of addressing the United Nations, in following with the WCG mission, was to increase visibility of police violence in Chicago and call out the continued impunity of police officers who abuse, harass, and kill youth of color in Chicago every year. The WCG youth delegation documented their trip to Geneva on social media. The delegation also made the decision to walkout during the second day of the proceeding and initiated a historic protest inside the United Nations during the presentation of U.S. Government representatives. From the beginning, WCG hoped for an official statement from the international body of UNCAT calling out the Chicago Police Department by name as a source of torture in the United States. This happened on November 28th, 2014, when the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) released concluding remarks in review of United States government’s implementation of Convention Against Torture. Police shootings and “fatal pursuit of unarmed black individuals”, lack of statistical data on police brutality, and failure to show investigations addressing the issue are all mentioned in the UNCAT remarks. The Chicago Police Department is called out by name. The death of Dominique Franklin Jr. by a police tasering is cited specifically. These are the issues that the WCG youth delegation traveled all the way to Geneva to speak about during the 53rd session of the Committee Against Torture. |
| “We Charge Genocide” Chicago Delegation The 2014 UN Shadow Report with Black Lives Matter – Chicago “We Charge Genocide” #chicopwatch web site We Charge Genocide UN Report, 2014 |
