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The murder of Beto Freitas in the Carrefour parking lot, in Porto Alegre, on Thursday (19), was recorded by the camera placed in front of the door, with a full view of the scene. It’s a streak of 17’09 ”, with a beginning, a middle and an end. It shows the empty scene, the arrival of the characters, the black man, the two security guards and the supermarket supervisor, and what happened next.
It is seen when, upon entering detention, Beto reacts to one of them for some reason, detaches himself and tries to attack him. The two, with full advantage, hold him and, with him already contained, beat him. For two minutes, he is kicked, beaten, and kneeling in the face, head, and ribs, until he is hit on the ground.
The inspector appears to film everything with a cell phone. People come closer. She drives them away and threatens someone who was also trying to film. A lady asks for mercy, in vain. A bald man in a suit steps on the fallen man and leaves. Another 15 people enter and leave the painting, with more or less interest, but in time to see the man being brutally immobilized, with one of the security guards pressing a knee on his back. Beto now only has little glimpses of movement with his feet. At 4’30 ” in the video, it stops moving completely. He no longer reacts, but for the next ten minutes, the security guard remains with his full weight on him, as if to ensure that he will not get out alive. Have. Beto died of suffocation.
Black men and women are daily victims of all kinds of violence, but this crime is a landmark. It was filmed, it has dozens of witnesses and there is no possible mitigation. More videos will appear, from new angles, with Beto Freitas’ screams of pain. More than choro, samba or funk, these screams are the true soundtrack of Brazilian blacks.
For Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão, president and vice president, there is no racism here. We hear that and we feel disgusted with them and with ourselves.
