Demonstrators burn objects to block a street during a protest against racism, after Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death by security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo: Reuters
Protests in Brazil after man beaten to death by white guards ahead of Black Consciousness Day
- Video showed one guard restraining João Alberto Silveira Freitas outside a Carrefour supermarket while the other hit him repeatedly in the face
- Thousands marched in Sao Paulo and elsewhere and the French supermarket chain said it will end its contract with the security company
Demonstrators burn objects to block a street during a protest against racism, after Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death by security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo: Reuters
