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Demonstrations against racism in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the day after a notorious beating to death.
The death of a black man in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre has sparked protests across the country and demands for action against racism.
The case is in many ways similar to the high-profile death of American George Floyd this summer.
– It’s an incredible sadness. I don’t want anyone to be affected by it, says Joao Batista Rodrigues Freitas in relation to his son’s funeral on Saturday.
Afro-Brazilian Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death on Thursday by security guards outside a grocery store of the French chain Carrefour.
A video filmed by a witness shows how one of the shop guards repeatedly hits Silveira Freitas on the head while another guard holds him. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
However, due to the lack of acid
According to preliminary statements from the coroner, Silveira Freitas was beaten for more than five minutes and then died of hypoxia.
Video recording of the incident spread like wildfire in the Brazilian media and just hours after the incident, thousands of protesters gathered in various parts of the country. Among other things, harsh criticism was leveled at the food chain that employed the guards and shops were vandalized in several places.
Police fired tear gas and stun grenades at crowds in various locations.
The two security guards who appeared in the film have been detained, one of the guards was at that time also employed by the country’s military police.
Improving society
About 40 people attended the funeral, most of them relatives. The coffin was wrapped in the blue flag of Sao José, the soccer club that the deceased liked.
– I hope that all the feelings that his death has aroused will make our society better. . that we should teach the principle of equality in schools, says his father.
On Saturday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again downplayed the existence of structural racism in the country.
He stressed that the approximately 212 million inhabitants of Brazil have very diverse ethnic backgrounds and condemned those who “want so much conflict and division” for trying to “import” into the country tensions that “are not part of its history.”
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