(VIDEO) Delivery driver is yet another victim of police brutality in São Paulo: "I can't breathe"
Video shows police officers assaulting a motorcycle delivery driver during an approach on Rebouças Avenue, in the city of São Paulo; while asking for help, the delivery driver repeated the phrase uttered by the American George Floyd before he died. Watch.
Forum Magazine - In the same week that a video surfaced showing a police officer stepping on the neck of a Black woman, the São Paulo Military Police acted brutally against a delivery driver.
During an approach on Rebouças Avenue, in the western part of São Paulo, police officers suffocated a motorcycle delivery driver who, amidst the violent action, cried out for help: "I can't breathe!", he shouted. The phrase is the same one uttered by the American George Floyd shortly before dying after a police encounter. The case in the United States triggered worldwide protests against racism.
Videos circulating on social media show the violent approach against the delivery driver in São Paulo. A group of other delivery drivers gathered during the incident, and it is possible to see, in the images, the police officers ordering those present to move away.
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