A Black man died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on the eve of Friday's Black Consciousness Day observations, sparking outrage as videos of the incident circulated on social media. Dozens of protesters entered a Carrefour in Brazil's capital, Brasilia, on Friday morning, chanting "Black lives matter!" A protester carries a sign that shows a screenshot from a video of Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas being beaten by security guards. Protesters gather outside a Carrefour supermarket in Brasilia on Friday. Camargo, who is Black, has denied the existence of structural racism in Brazilian society and called the Black Lives Matter movement "lefty garbage."

Source: CBC News November 20, 2020 23:03 UTC