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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Black man who died while being beaten by supermarket security guards was buried on Saturday following protests that echoed those of…
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Black man who died while being beaten by supermarket security guards was buried on Saturday following protests that echoed those of the racial justice movement in the United States. João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a father of four, was buried wearing a white T-shirt in a coffin draped with the flag of his favorite soccer team in the city of Porto Alegre. “I just want justice,” his partner, Milena Borges Alves,, told Globo news. “ That’s all. I just want them to pay for what they did to him. He didn’t deserve to die like this.” She said they had planned to formally marry in a few days after living together for nine years. Demonstrators enraged by Freitas’ death painted “Black iives matter” on the pavement of Paulista Avenue, one of the most famous in São Paulo, following a series of protests across the country, many of them at branches of the Carrefour supermarket chain. Some protests continued Saturday. Military police used pepper spray to disperse demonstrators outside a supermarket in the northeastern city of Recife. The outrage was fed by a widely circulated video showing one guard restraining Freitas as another hit him repeatedly in the face.

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