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The death of a black man beaten by white security guards in a supermarket has sparked protests in Brazil, AFP reported. The murder took place on Thursday, the day before November 20, when Brazilians celebrate their Day of Empathy with the Black Community.
After a video of the incident in the southern city of Porto Alegre circulated on social media and in the Brazilian media, around 1,000 protesters went to a Carrefour supermarket and devastated the area. In Porto Alegre, police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a protest outside the supermarket where the man was killed, BNR reported.
There were also demonstrations in the Brazilian capital and in Rio de Janeiro. A video shared on social media shows Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being repeatedly hit in the face and head by a security guard while another holds him in front of the supermarket. Rio Grande do Sul military police said the man threatened a woman who worked in a supermarket and she called security.
Silveira Freitas lost consciousness during the beating and died on the spot, despite the doctors calling. A friend of the victim, who would have witnessed what happened, told local media that before he died he managed to scream that he could not breathe, so the story remembers the death of George Floyd in the United States, which generated large-scale protests.
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