Protesters around the world have taken to the streets in response to events in the United States, where the death in police custody of black man George Floyd has sparked a wave of anti-racism demonstrations.
Reuters interviewed five people in five countries about why they had taken to the streets in recent days and what they hoped to achieve. Here is what they said:LONDON: Stedroy Cabey, a 30-year-old actor, who spoke while surrounded by hundreds of noisy protesters at the weekend:
“When I first moved to the UK there was an incident where ... me and my cousin were on the bus and started looking at us in a weird way. When he got off the bus he ran up to us, he was like ‘go back to where you came from, you don’t belong here’. And I was speechless in that moment. I was a young boy, a young man coming from the Caribbean ... for a better life ... It was like wow. It reminded me that racism is actually real.”PARIS: Bokar Ture, a U.S.
FILE PHOTO: Pauline Sobze, 17, high school student from Ath, takes part in a protest organised by Black Lives Matter Belgium, against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in central Brussels, Belgium June 7, 2020.REUTERS/Yves Herman“The reason why I come here to protest because as you can see the colour of my skin, it can happen to me, it can happen to my family, my friends. And it’s important for me to come here because we ...
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