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November 23, 2020

Fatal Beating of Black Man by Brazilian Police Spurs Nationwide Protests
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In Brazil, the killing of a Black man by security guards has set off
nationwide protests declaring that Black lives matter. Joćo Alberto
Silveira Freitas of Porto Alegre died from his injuries after the pair
of guards - one of them an off-duty military police officer - were
filmed pummeling him and kneeling on his back in the parking lot of a
supermarket on the eve of Brazil's Black Consciousness Day. Video of the
killing was widely shared on social media, with many Brazilians
comparing Freitas's death to the police killing of George Floyd in
Minneapolis.


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