Demonstrators protest against death in Porto Alegre and the Carrefour store is invaded in SP | Saint Paul

After the end of the peaceful act, a small group of protesters used stones and sticks to attack the store and break windows in the unit, which is located inside a shopping center in the region.

The protesters also entered the supermarket and set fire to some products. Carrefour security guards used fire extinguishers to extinguish the flames and closed the store with customers inside, to prevent further disturbances.

No one was injured on the spot, but at least one car in the shopping center parking lot was also attacked and destroyed by protesters. The glass on the exterior facade of the store was destroyed, as well as one of the escalators in the shopping center.

The demonstration started around 4 in the afternoon, in the Masp free space, on Avenida Paulista, and there was no violence. The protesters demanded respect and equality and recalled the violence suffered by the black population in the peripheries of the country. They went to the Carrefour unit on Pamplona street, around 6:30 p.m.

During the attack on the supermarket, the organizers of the march called on the protesters to not damage the unit, but the small group that attacked the supermarket did not listen to them.

Faced with the uproar, the police intervened and closed part of Pamplona Street to disperse the protesters.

March 17 Black Consciousness

The 17th March of Black Conscience was convened by organizations of the black movement with the theme “Black Lives Matter”.

The event in the capital of São Paulo asked the black population to improve their lives and also recalled the death of Councilor Marielle Franco (PSOL), murdered in Rio de Janeiro in March 2018.

A 40-year-old black man, João Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten and killed by two white men from the state capital on the eve of Black Awareness Day, celebrated on Friday (20). The beating was filmed by witnesses (see video below; images are strong).

The two suspects were arrested on the spot. Military police officer Giovani Gaspar da Silva, 24, was transferred to a military prison. Magno Braz Borges, 30, a security guard at a store, is in a Civil Police building. The investigation treats the crime as a qualified homicide.

A friend of João Alberto said that he witnessed the attack and saw when the victim “screamed that he could not breathe” while the security guards beat him.

“That video over there, man, shows all the aggression he had before he died. In addition to assaulting him, they gave him a naked rear strangulation, they strangled him, people asked him to let him go, to let him breathe, because he was screaming. Whoever He couldn’t breathe, he wouldn’t let go, when they did he was already purple, he was already out of breath, ”says Paulão Paquetá, a friend of the victim.

Paulão lives in the same neighborhood as João Alberto. He says he went to the supermarket to buy and, upon arrival, saw his friend being beaten.

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