Global show of unity for equality - 10th June 2020

People worldwide have rallied to support the Black Lives Matter cause, protesting racism, from the USA to London to Seoul.

George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, USA, is the most recent in a long line of deaths of black people while in police custody, and his killing precipitated an unprecedented global response. Now charged with murder, the officer answerable for Mr Floyd’s death will stand trial.

In London, protesters converged on Trafalgar Square in silence, kneeling in remembrance of Mr Floyd, showing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Across the US, cities have witnessed day after day of demonstrations, with the capital Washington seeing families and friends gathering together to march and “take the knee”, and in one voice demand equality for all.

Cierra Owens: Because, one day, I will be having black little girls and black little boys as kids and I want them to come up in a world that doesn’t hate them. I want them to fight for other things and not just to be, have human rights. The, this is not something that’s just a race thing. This is a human rights thing. This is not something that we, we should still be doing in 2020.