Brazilians Protest After Black Man Killed in Carrefour Store
- Video of Black man’s death by Carrefour security went viral
- Murder occurred eve of Black Consciousness Day, fueling revolt
Products burn at a Carrefour supermarket in Sao Paulo, on Nov. 20.
Photographer: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images
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Street protests swept across Brazil and shops were looted after a video went viral showing grocery store security guards beating a Black man to death.
Two Carrefour outsourced employees were filmed killing the 40-year-old man in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Thursday. The man, who was shopping with his wife, had a disagreement with employees at the checkout, local media reported. The guards were White, according to the reports.