translated from Spanish: Protest for racism in US in front of embassy in Mexico

Mexico.- About 300 people demonstrated on Thursday against police racism in the United States, With an emotional memorial in front of that country’s embassy, located on central Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, dressed in black and with dozens of banners, the protesters, mostly young and American, dedicated a kind of tribute to George Floyd, the African-American man killed at the hands of the police 10 days ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The protest action called “Memorial in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” which was convened by U.S. citizens, Mexicans, and other foreigners residing in Mexico, was in honor of lives lost at the hands of institutional racism in the United States.
We are here to remember the black lives that have been killed by police in the United States where racism is an integral part of their systems and institutions, said one of the activists on the spot.

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He recalled that in that nation, the police have murdered more than a hundred black people since June 2014.Hundreds of people emulated, in their own way, protests in the United States over Floyd’s death, but in the Mexican capital they did so calmly and without violence.” Your fight is my fight #BlackLivesMatter”, “Anti-fascist Latin America, Our Lives Matter”, “Racism Kills. I can’t breathe” and “Justice for George Floyd”, were some of the messages that could be read on the bannersVigil and altar in honor of Floyd
A chalk drawing by Floyd and composed of the phrases “Black Lives Matter and Justicie by Floyd” led a sort of altar with dozens of candles that was improvised on one of the public benches in front of the U.S. embassy that was discreet but heavily guarded by police officers.

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“I’m fed up with 500 years of oppression, violence and invisibility against us, we’re fed up with systematic killings against people,” said Ebony Bailey, an African-American based in Mexico,” said there are many links between different racisms, ranging from micro-aggression to more structural violence.” It is important to demonstrate and ask us to end this horrible state of racism. It’s important that we make the connection between state violence in the United States and Mexico,” said Bea, a young woman from Philadelphia, who works for an NGO in the Mexican capital. Organizers recalled the lives of black people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmad Arbery and many others, in a vigil that turned into a show of affection and ended emotionally with the 300 knee-onshore attendees for several minutes.

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Among the students’ carcasses was one that read “Justice for Giovanni” referring to the young Mexican Giovanni Lopez, who died after being violently arrested by Mexican policemen for not using coverts, May 4th in Ixtlahuacán de los Quinces, in the western state of Guadalajara.On Thursday, the cries against police brutality against African-Americans rumbled on the streets of major U.S. cities, while Minneapolis, Minnesota, tears up African-American George Floyd, whose murder has sparked a wave of protests. 



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