ROGERS PARK — Activists fed up with the treatment of “young black and brown people” by police are headed to the United Nations in Switzerland to make a case for the international group’s intervention in an unlikely place — Chicago.
The group began to coalesce over the summer in the wake of the death of a fellow activist who fell into a coma after being hit by a police stun gun in Old Town. Its members were later bolstered by fallout from the police shooting of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri.
They adopted the name We Charge Genocide, prepared a report to be released Wednesday on alleged violence by Chicago police and started raising money.
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