Black Lives Matter protests: Photos show scale of demonstrations around world | indy100 | indy100

Protests around systemic racism, police brutality and police violence have spread in the last week, ever since protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, two weeks ago.

The protests started in Minneapolis, the city where Floyd lived and was killed by police officers. They soon spread to other cities in the US.

Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles. https://t.co/eKY30ig2FL
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To say today’s Black Lives Matter protest in Austin is enormous is an understatement. This is one of the biggest… https://t.co/RBSmrb5TXx
— Bob Libal (@Bob Libal) 1591560651

In other countries around the world, protests have swelled to the thousands.

Black Lives Matter protests in Berlin, London, Paris and Sydney today (clockwise) https://t.co/sekN4ePLHJ
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Paris

PARIS - Rassemblement de plusieurs centaine de personne en hommage à #GeorgeFloyd sur la Place de la Concorde.… https://t.co/DXHB7kDxnf
— Clément Lanot (@Clément Lanot) 1591450055

Sydney and Melbourne

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Australia to protest against racism and police brutality fol… https://t.co/YL3XevsckH
— Sky News (@Sky News) 1591453800

Tokyo

#0606渋谷署前抗議 Demo against police brutality ハチ公前～渋谷警察署一周～並木橋児童遊園地 #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/JASANuOB6b https://t.co/GOCjinqB9d
— 金蜜 (@金蜜) 1591429030

Vancouver

The moment when thousands of people from all backgrounds, take a knee in the name of #GeorgeFloyd in Vancouver’s Ja… https://t.co/VIXR3DozMa
— Sonia Deol (@Sonia Deol) 1591411081

Rome

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Auckland

New Zealand holds one of the largest Black Lives Matter protests outside of the United States. Global Unity Now, No… https://t.co/zvtFjrMzt9
— Anonymous (@Anonymous) 1591127229

Bologna

Bologna, Italy. That was the global hotspot for a time and the fear of the virus there was intense. This was their… https://t.co/E9jtQy71Bi
— Turkey Leg Jeff (@Turkey Leg Jeff) 1591496363

Lisbon

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Dublin

Protestors in Ireland hold one of the largest protests in Dublin's history, demanding that the U.S. end impunity an… https://t.co/9h8gNGJ50s
— Anonymous (@Anonymous) 1591127958

Stockholm

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Amsterdam

This is currently the protest in Amsterdam, The Netherlands at dam square! #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterNL… https://t.co/vDRAM1zR6q
— Clau 💖 (@Clau 💖) 1591029398

More cities around the world have protests scheduled for this week.