BLACK LIVES MATTER
Barcelona. 2020
Black lives matter is an international movement organized within the African American community. It emerged in 2013 after George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the death of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin from a trait.
In May 2020, the murder of African-American George Floyd once again set off alarms. Floyd was detained, immobilized and drowned for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to death, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and two other officers. Floyd, during these eight minutes, he only repeated: “And I can’t breathe!” (“I can’t breathe”).
This fact provoked the mobilizations in several cities of the United States against racism and police brutality. The protests spread around the world and Barcelona also joined.
The images capture the mobilizations that took place in the city of Barcelona.
