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Added on the 02/06/2020 21:20:27 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images shot from a building show hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists protest in London in solidarity with US movements and rallies after African American George Floyd died when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck during arrest. Thousands of National Guard troops patrol major US cities after five consecutive nights of protests over racism and police brutality boiled over into arson and looting, sending shock waves through the country. IMAGES
A Black Lives Matter demonstration takes place in Houston over the killing by police of George Floyd, a black man who was unarmed, in Minneapolis. IMAGES
A few hundred Black Lives Matter protesters march from Hyde Park to London's Parliament Square to call for racial justice. IMAGES
Protesters march in Sydney Saturday in solidarity with US Black Lives Matter demonstrators, and to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. The NSW Court of Appeal gave the rally the go ahead earlier in the day after the supreme court banned the meet on Friday, backing government claims it could risk spreading the coronavirus. IMAGES
Protesters celebrate Breonna Taylor's birthday during a Black Lives Matter rally in the New York neighbourhood of Brooklyn. In March, the 26-year-old medical worker was shot dead in her own apartment in Louisville, Kentucky by police who barged in, alleging her home had been used by drug dealers. IMAGES