Week 2: From LA to Brazil, Scenes from Protests Across the World
A protester wearing a face mask stare at a police officer during a protest amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on June 7, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images
The call for justice and the defunding of police, as well as against police brutality and racism (not only in culture but systems and institutions), is one that the rest of the world is slowly but surely catching on to. What began as an impassioned cry for the arrest of the police officers involved in George Floyd’s murder is now a global movement that will, hopefully, surely change our meaning of “normal.”
The pandemic did not stop crowds from amassing again on the weekend of June 5 across not only the United States, which was an COVID-19 epicenter until recently when Latin America recently took its place. Brazil, which reportedly has had more than 36,000 deaths and 690,000 diagnoses cases has shown up and shown out to demand the end of racism and police brutality, which is a very real issue in favelas especially.
Here are a few inspiring glimpses at the collective action that took place:
Uptown Manhattan, New York:
Uptown bouncing back#BlackLivesMatter
📸: @shotbyalberto pic.twitter.com/yyPqdrfEW4
— alex medina (@mrmedina) June 7, 2020
Costa Rica:
Brazil
Ato antifascista e antirracista em Brasília já está rolando e está enorme. O que é o cercadinho do Bolsonaro perto disso? Às 14h, no Largo da Batata, começa em São Paulo. Brasil entrando na rota das mobilizações antirracistas e antifascistas do mundo. #ForaBolsonaro pic.twitter.com/ZiGbNhiOWE
— Monica das Pretas (@MonicaSeixas) June 7, 2020
"Ninguém aqui é empreendedor de porra nenhuma. Nois é força de trabalho nessa porra."
Entregadores antifascistas.
São Paulo, 07 de junho de 2020. pic.twitter.com/acdq7c613k
— Felipe Larozza (@felipe_larozza) June 8, 2020
Australia:
Australia's Supreme Court ruled that today's Black Lives Matter protest at Sydney's town hall, this protest was ILLEGAL…
Australians said F the court and persisted in solidarity anyway! ✊🏾
That's bad ass
BLACK LIVES MATTER! pic.twitter.com/UYAHysBwoW
— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) June 6, 2020
London, England:
I can’t even wrap my mind around the size of the #BlackLivesMatter protests in London. https://t.co/pB2zovFmFq
— Read Starting Somewhere (@JPHilllllll) June 7, 2020