Chicago mayor urges UN to investigate US human rights abuses under Trump administration

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00:27Move.

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00:34Hey, why are you grabbing me?

00:36Hey, stop.

00:39You fucked me up.

00:40Many of you have already raised concerns about the deployment of the National Guard in U.S. cities,

00:47the militarization of law enforcement, the abuse of immigration crackdowns,

00:52and other serious setbacks in the protection of fundamental rights.

00:59And on behalf of the city of Chicago, I want to acknowledge your statements and expressions of concern.

01:05Your vigilance matters.

01:07Because it signals to our communities that the world is watching

01:11and that international standards of dignity and justice apply to all nations, including my own.

01:18We are here because the federal government under the Trump administration has failed to meet

01:23even the most basic expectations of transparency and accountability before this council.

01:29And by refusing to submit its universal periodic review report

01:34and declining to appear for its review,

01:37this administration seeks to evade scrutiny for its violations of human rights,

01:43just as it has sought to evade accountability for its actions in cities like mine.

01:49This refusal to engage in good faith with international mechanisms for accountability and oversight

01:55is a moral failure.

01:57In Chicago, we live with the consequences of that moral failure every day.

02:04Families torn apart by immigration raids, raids that have targeted daycare teachers,

02:10rideshare drivers, and restaurant cooks.

02:14Honest, hardworking, law-abiding people who contribute to the soul of Chicago,

02:20who literally make our city run.

02:22The federal government's immigration enforcement has been marked by violence

02:28and an assault on the dignity of all Chicagoans.

02:32Federal agents drag parents out of their vehicles in the pickup line for elementary schools.

02:39They throw neighbors supporting their neighbors to the ground and assault them.

02:44Right before Halloween, federal agents deploy tear gas on a children's neighborhood parade.

02:50This harm is not just concentrated on our immigrant communities, however.

02:57In Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, a proud, predominantly Black community,

03:03federal agents carried out what can only be described as a military-style raid

03:08designed for social media to be a spectacle for the world to witness.

03:15Helicopters circled overhead.

03:17Doors were kicked in.

03:18And homes were destroyed.

03:21Immigrant residents were detained in one van while Black families, including children,

03:26were held in another.

03:28On the West Side, federal agents placed a Black Chicagoan in a chokehold

03:32and forced him to the ground.

03:34Just steps from the doors of the West Side Center for Justice,

03:38a space meant to protect and uplift our people.

03:42Earlier this week, federal agents crashed into the vehicle of Diane Figueroa,

03:49a U.S. citizen who was on her way to get coffee before heading to work.

03:54The agents then took her into custody for no apparent reason.

03:58These are not isolated incidents.

04:01They are reminders that the fate of our communities, Black, Brown, immigrant, is bound together.

04:11An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

04:14And in Chicago, we stand united to defend our shared dignity, our safety, and our freedom.

04:22I call on this council to hold the federal government of the United States to the same standards of accountability

04:49you apply elsewhere in the world.

04:52No country should be above international law.

04:55Human rights are universal.

04:58Or they are meaningless.

05:01Chicago has long been a part of this struggle.

05:05From the 1950s, when the Civil Rights Congress brought the We Charge Genocide petition to this very body,

05:13to the young organizers who marched here decades later, demanding an end to police violence,

05:18to the courageous lawyers and survivors of the Chicago Police Department's torture scandal

05:25who compelled the U.N. Committee Against Torture to call for justice and reparations,

05:30our city's residents have long insisted that global human rights norms must be realized locally.

05:40We stand in that proud tradition today.

05:42And as I close, I invite the U.N.'s independent experts to visit Chicago to witness both our challenges

05:49and our progress firsthand.

05:52And I urge the Human Rights Council to consider additional measures of accountability,

05:56including a special session to examine the worsening human rights crisis in the United States.

06:04The people of Chicago and of this nation deserve a government that honors their dignity,

06:10not one that diminishes it.

06:13Thank you for your time, your attention, and your continued solidarity in the global fight for human rights.

06:21Thank you very much, Mayor Johnson, for joining us from Chicago.

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