Antonio Dourado
24 November 2020
The killing of an Afro-Brazilian man, and the widespread outrage it has sparked, underscores the urgent need for the Government to tackle racism and racial discrimination in South America’s largest country, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
João Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death by two private security guards outside a Carrefour supermarket in the southern city of Porto Alegre last Thursday, the eve of Black Consciousness Day in Brazil.
���� The killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas – an Afro-descendent beaten to death by 2 private security guards on the eve of #BlackConsciousness Day – is an extreme but sadly all too common example of the violence suffered by Black people in #Brazil �� https://t.co/syA03dBnDmpic.twitter.com/hXzEvdoqw7— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) November 24, 2020