The family of Colten Boushie is calling on the United Nations to investigate racism and systemic bias in Canada’s justice system.
The Boushie family is putting forward a special resolution at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Gatineau, Quebec this week calling on the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to investigate.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reports on the rights of Indigenous peoples in selected countries, addresses alleged human rights violations and conducts thematic studies on the promotion and protection of rights of Indigenous peoples.
The Boushie family also made a presentation to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 18.
The delegation at the AFN assembly includes Colten Boushie’s sister Jade Tootoosis, his mother Debbie Baptiste, uncle Alvin Baptiste and lawyer Eleanore Sunchild.
In a Saskatchewan courtroom earlier this year, Gerald Stanley was acquitted of all charges in the 2016 death of Boushie. Stanley was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter at the trial.
Stanley shot and killed the 22-year-old Cree man after a car he was in entered his farm.
(PHOTO: Colten Boushie. File photo.)