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Floyd's Death 'Holds Up Mirror' to Other Countries

Jamie Dettmer

   The death of George Floyd and the subsequent anti-racism protests
   sweeping the U.S. are being latched onto by African and ethnic
   minorities elsewhere -- from Iraq to Britain, from Canada to Australia
   -- to boost awareness of their own struggles to overcome endemic racial
   prejudice.

   The death of Floyd, an African American man who died in police custody
   after a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight
   minutes, has prompted large "Black Lives Matter" protests in dozens of
   countries around the world, many of them ignoring coronavirus social
   distancing rules.

   Some rights activists say Floyd's death might one day be compared in
   terms of its wider impact to the 2010 self-immolation of Tunisian
   Mohamed Bouazizi, a street-hawker who doused himself with gasoline and
   set himself on fire to protest the confiscation of his goods by police.

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