Answer:
Cuz of the dumb white ******* cop that killed George Floy.
Explanation:
Thousands of protesters marched against police brutality and racism in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday. The demonstration was about George Floyd, the black man killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. But the protest was also about Belgium: its colonial history, its current inequities. Demonstrators scaled a statue of King Leopold II, the Belgian ruler who killed millions of Congolese people, and hoisted the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo below it. It wasn’t just Brussels. Protests have erupted on nearly every continent, many defying coronavirus restrictions. People took to the streets in London, Seoul, Sydney, Monrovia, Rio de Janeiro. A mural honoring Floyd was painted amid the rubble in opposition-held Idlib, Syria. The video of Floyd’s assault, shared widely on social media, made “people think about how it was relevant where we were,” said Stephanie Collingwoode-Williams, a spokesperson for Belgian Network for Black Lives, a collective formed this week to bring activist organizations together in Belgium. When Americans went out on the streets to protest, and kept going out day after day after day, it sparked a movement around the world.And, as in the United States, there are glimmers that, this time, it might be different.Statues of figures from countries’ colonial pasts are falling. Governments are reexamining policies when it comes to policing. Protesters worldwide are saying the name of George Floyd, but also Collins Khosa and Adama Traoré and Belly Mujinga, black men and women in other countries who died in police custody or whose deaths have not been fully investigated.What comes next is uncertain — whether protests will continue, whether there will be real change. At this moment, though, “Black Lives Matter” is a global rallying cry and a gut-punch reminder that this message still needs to be repeated everywhere.The protests went global and stayed that way. Just look at the UK.Solidarity protests cropped up around the world as uprisings enveloped the United States at the end of May and into June following the police killing of Floyd.Those have continued and expanded and have now become movements of their own. This is especially true in Western Europe, where many countries are still grappling with their colonial legacies and the systemic inequities minorities, including immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, face. “We stand alone in terms of creating our momentum — not just responding to what’s happening in the US,” Alex, a 29-year-old organizer with Black Lives Matter UK, told me. “But at the same time, obviously, solidarity is really, really important, and we operate under the same banner, ‘Black Lives Matter.’”“I think that’s because we understand that what happens over there also happens over here,” she added. And US activists, she said, know that, as well. “And so we understand the connections there as well as the connections with other people and other parts of Europe. So we’ve also connected with groups in Germany, in France, and in Belgium recently,” Alex said. “There’s so much in common.”
