MADRID, June 8 — Calling for racial justice, protesters rallied across Europe yesterday, joining a wave of demonstrations sparked by the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of US police. A video of the incident with Floyd pleading for his life in Minneapolis as a white police...
Protesters raise their fists at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid during a demonstration against racism and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, June 7, 2020. — AFP pic
Several thousand people massed outside the US embassy in Madrid, shouting “I cannot breathe”, Floyd’s last words, and demanding justice. The police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder while three fellow officers face lesser charges.More than 1,000 people yesterday also gathered at a Black Lives Matter protest near the US embassy in Budapest.
In Bristol, a city linked to the slave trade, the statue of trader Edward Colston was torn down yesterday and thrown into the harbour.In Lausanne, Switzerland, a black-clad demonstrator’s placard read “my colour is not a threat”, while almost 10,000 people marched in Brussels, police said. Fighting was also reported however at the end of a protest in Goteborg, Sweden, were almost 2,000 people turned out for a march authorised for just 50 owing to coronavirus restrictions.
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