Popular anger in Brazil after black man’s violent death | Abroad

A demonstration in front of the Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre.

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Sao Paulo – In Brazil, great unrest has arisen after the death of a black man at a supermarket in the south of the country. 40-year-old João Alberto Silveira Freitas was pressed to the ground for minutes by two white security guards. Protesters call his death a racist murder and have called for a boycott of supermarket chain Carrefour.

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