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19
November
2020

João Alberto Freitas is killed at a Carrefour supermarket

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📅 19 November 2020 📍 Brazil

Security personnel killed João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a Black man, at a Carrefour store in Porto Alegre. The killing generated antiracist protest and demands for corporate accountability. It brought racialized violence in commercial spaces into public debate and later prompted a coordinated institutional response involving public defenders, prosecutors and civil-society organizations.

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João Alberto Silveira Freitas

Organizations in this Event

Carrefour

Educafro

Centro Santo Dias de Direitos Humanos