Anti-Racism Protesters Around The World Demand Justice For George Floyd
May 31, 2020
Thousands of anti-racism campaigners around the world staged demonstrations on Sunday, acting in solidarity with Americans protesting police violence after George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes last week.Demonstrators in London marched across the city after gathering in Trafalgar Square, where they kneeled en masse in honour of Floyd, before heading across the Thames to protest near the US embassy in Battersea.Onlookers cheered and drivers honked horns from passing cars as the protesters chanted “say his name” and “Black lives matter.” At one point, four men climbed on top of a bus stop to lead the chants, before getting down on one knee in silence and encouraging the others to do the same.One demonstrator said the protests were “very important because it is sending a clear message that we have had enough racial injustice in our country.”Isabelle Orsini, 20, is originally from New York and now lives in Kensington.
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