Tag: racism

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  March on Washington: “You might have killed the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream”

  

  Thousands of people took part in a march in Washington on Friday to denounce racism, on the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his historic 'I Have a Dream' speech.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  A George Floyd similar incident video-taped in London: “get off my neck” cried the black man

  

  London's police force suspended an officer on Friday after video footage emerged of him appearing to kneel on the head and neck of a Black man they had detained who cried out, “Get off my neck!”

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Violent protests in London's Parliament Square; more than 100 people arrested

  

  Police in London said they arrested more than 100 people on Saturday after far-right protesters holding a counter-demonstration against anti-racism activists clashed with officers. Thousands of people defied the coronavirus restrictions to assemble in and around Parliament Square, in the centre of the capital.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  House speaker calls for removal of Confederate statues from the US Capitol

  

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Wednesday for removal of 11 Confederate statues from the US Capitol, part of a nationwide push to dismantle such memorials after a black man's killing in police custody sparked mass anti-racism protests.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 12:51 UTC

  Canadian aboriginal groups demand independent probe into death of a young indigenous woman by the police

  

  Canadian aboriginal groups on Saturday (June 6) called for an independent probe into the death of an indigenous woman who was shot by a police officer called in for a wellness check.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Ex Minnesota police officers involved in Floyd' homicide charged with more serious crimes

  

  Prosecutors on Wednesday leveled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis police officers implicated in the death of an unarmed black man who was pinned by his neck to the street during an arrest caught on video, sparking nine days of nationwide protest and civil turmoil.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 12:27 UTC

  Clashes and rioting in Paris recalling the death of a black man in French police custody

  

  Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Paris on Tuesday after around 20,000 people defied a ban to rally over the 2016 death of a black man in police custody, galvanized by US demonstrations against racism and deadly police violence.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Thousands demonstrate before the US Capitol yelling “silence is violence”

  

  Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace,” just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  “I can't breathe” chant favela residents in Rio protesting crimes committed by police against black people

  

  Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the square in front of the Rio de Janeiro state government palace Sunday, protesting crimes committed by the police against black people in the Brazilian city’s poor neighborhoods, known as favelas.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:44 UTC

  Independent autopsy contradicts official document: George Floyd died from asphyxiation

  

  Two doctors who carried out an independent autopsy of George Floyd, the black man whose death in Minneapolis police custody last week triggered nationwide protests, said on Monday that he died from asphyxiation and that his death was a homicide.