In Brazil, thousands of people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and more than a dozen other cities across the country over the weekend, demanding justice for Moïse Kabagambe, a 24-year-old Congolese refugee who was beaten to death last month. Kabagambe was attacked on January 24 after he demanded back pay from two days of work at a Rio de Janeiro beach kiosk where he served beverages. Security footage shows three men repeatedly beating Kabagambe with a club and a baseball bat over the course of 13 minutes. This is one of the protesters.
Oswaldo Sergio Mendes: “The Brazilian state is racist. It is a Nazi state. It is a homophobic and xenophobic state. And it has to stop. We are here at this huge protest in solidarity with all the families who suffered these barbaric crimes.”
Kabagambe’s family left Congo and fled to Brazil in 2011, when he was a child.