On Friday, protesters in Brazil attacked a Carrefour supermarket after photographs went viral to two white security guards in the store beating a black man to death on Thursday night.
According to Reuters, the killing took place after a store worker called security when a guy allegedly threatened to attack him.
Images of the incident appear to show that the guards beat the man, later known in the local media through his father as Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, at the Porto Alegre store, according to BBC News.
A store worker was next to the film and other clips, then filmed, showing a guard kneeling on Freitas’ back, The Associated Press reported.
The BBC reported that one of the guards was an off-duty army police officer.
The incident occurred on the eve of Black Awareness Day, a holiday seen in many parts of Brazil as a black culture birthday party and a way to draw attention to the discrimination faced by black Brazilians in the country.
According to the Brazilian Public Security Forum, a non-governmental organization, blacks and half-breeds account for about 57% of the Brazilian population, but 74% of those suffering from fatal violence. The organization says black people account for 79% of those killed. through the Brazilian police.
Reuters reported that more than a thousand protesters piled up and set fire to parts of the Carrefour store in Porto Alegre on Friday.
According to the AP, protests broke out at other Carrefour sites across Brazil, and dozens of people entered one in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, on Friday morning, chanting “Black lives matter!”
One user allegedly had a sign that said, “Don’t shop at Carrefour. He can die.
At a crossroads in Rio de Janeiro, protesters shouted “Carrefour Killer!”like a lay on the treadmill of a box.
Nadine Anflor, head of the civil police in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where Porto Alegre is the capital, said Friday that the two guards involved in the murder had been arrested and were being investigated.
The local Carrefour department expressed sympathy for what it called a brutal death on Friday, adding that it had taken steps to ensure those affected were punished.
According to Reuters, Carrefour added that he would terminate his contract with the security company, ignoring the worker overseeing the workshop at the time of the incident and completing the workshop as a sign of respect.
Alexandre Bompard, Executive Leader of Carrefour, wrote in a series of tweets Friday that published photographs of the incident on social media were “unbearable. “
“Internal measures were put in place through Carrefour Brazil, especially to the security company involved,” Bompard tweeted. “These measures do not go far enough. My values and Carrefour values do not allow racism and violence. “
“I have asked Carrefour Brazil to cooperate fully with the judicial government to get the other way around this appalling action,” he added.
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