Hundreds of people gathered yesterday at Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen to show support for the US civil rights movement ‘Black Rights Matter’.
“We organised this demonstration to show solidarity with the victims whose lives have been taken in the United States,” Sade Johnson, the organiser of the event, told DR.
On Facebook, Johnson wrote that the protest group condemns “the politicisation, criminalisation and radicalisation of people of African decent” as well “the racial profiling police brutality in the United States”.
David Trads, a Danish journalist and political commentator, spoke at the Copenhagen demonstration, which proceeded peacefully.
Over 1,300 similar protests have taken place in the US and elsewhere around the world since last week, when the US police killed two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
