How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/18042/black-lives-matter-in-europe-too

When Baltimore erupted into protest this April over Freddie Gray’s death, it was clear that the movement against racist police brutality that began last August in Ferguson, Missouri, had survived the winter. Baltimore, many said, was the next Ferguson.

But where, then, is the next Baltimore? Perhaps somewhere in Europe.

On May 18, hundreds of Parisians gathered to protest the acquittal of two police officers who, in 2005, allegedly did nothing to prevent the accidental electrocution death of two teenagers— one black, one of Arab descent—who had run into an off-limits power facility while being pursued by police....

At a May demonstration in London, the name on picket signs was Julian Cole, a 21-year-old black Briton who has been in a vegetative state since 2013, when police allegedly left him with spinal injuries uncannily similar to those suffered by Gray in the back of a police van.

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1. That's right.. #BlackLivesMatter. How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End

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