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Violence erupts in Brazil after black man beaten to death

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November 22, 2020
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More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a black man at the store.

People protest against the death of a black man in front of supermarket Carrefour, where his beating took place, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Photo: AFP

The killing, which has sparked protests across Brazil, occurred late on Thursday when a supermarket employee called security after the man threatened to attack her, cable news channel GloboNews said, citing the Rio Grande do Sul state military police.

Amateur footage of the fatal beating and tributes to the black victim were published on social media. He was identified in local media by his father as 40-year-old Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas.

News website G1 later reported that an initial analysis by the state forensics institute indicated the cause of death could be asphyxiation.

Funeral procession underway for João Alberto Silveira Freitas, the Afro-brazilian man lynched by Carrefour security guards in Porto Alegre, Brazil. pic.twitter.com/xO8k4XfVLM

— BrianMier (@BrianMteleSUR) November 21, 2020

In a statement on Friday, the local unit of France’s Carrefour supermarkets said it deeply regretted what it called a brutal death and said it immediately took steps to ensure those responsible were legally punished.

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It said it would terminate the contract with the security firm, fire the employee in charge of the store at the time of the incident, and close the store as a mark of respect.

In a series of tweets on Friday night in Portuguese, the language spoken in Brazil, the Chairman and CEO of Carrefour, Alexandre Bompard, said the images posted on social media were “unbearable.”

“Internal measures have immediately been implemented by Carrefour Brazil, notably towards the security company involved. These measures do not go far enough. My values, and the values of Carrefour do not allow for racism and violence,” Bompard said.

He called for a complete review of employee and sub-contractors’ training on security, diversity and tolerance values.

“I have asked the teams of Carrefour Brazil to fully cooperate with judicial authorities to get to the bottom of this odious action,” he added.

Demonstrators make a barrier out of car tyres inside the supermarket Carrefour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Demonstrators make a barrier out of car tyres inside the supermarket Carrefour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo: AFP

In Porto Alegre, protesters on Friday afternoon handed out stickers depicting the Carrefour logo stained with blood and called for a boycott of the chain. They held up a banner in Portuguese reading “Black Lives Matter” and signs calling for justice for Beto, a nickname for the victim.

The protest turned violent on Friday evening as the demonstrators smashed windows and delivery vehicles in the supermarket’s parking area. A Reuters witness saw police firing tear gas at the protesters.

In Sao Paulo, Brazil’s financial centre, dozens of protesters smashed the front windows of a Carrefour store with rocks, pulled off the front doors and stormed the building, spilling products into the aisles before dispersing. In Rio de Janeiro, roughly 200 shouting protesters gathered outside another Carrefour store location.

The death of a black man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket sparks protests across Brazil as the country celebrates Black Consciousness Day https://t.co/nZQJVie1Bj pic.twitter.com/N5uNkfLItA

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 21, 2020

November 20 is honoured in many parts of Brazil as Black Awareness Day. Brazilians like to think of their country as a harmonious ‘racial democracy’ and far-right President Jair Bolsonaro denies the presence of racism.

But the influence of slavery, abolished in 1888, is still evident.

Black Brazilians are almost three times as likely to be victims of homicide, according to 2019 government data.

“The culture of hate and racism needs to be combated at its source, and the full weight of the law should be used to punish those that promote hate and racism,” Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, wrote in a tweet.

-REUTERS


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