As racism is, unfortunately, surging in Germany, tens of thousands of Germans publicly demonstrated in cities across Germany, this weekend, calling for justice against racial discrimination and police aggression. Apparently, it was the largest demonstration ever to be held, outside the United States.
In Berlin, 15.000 protested in Alexanderplatz holding placards that read: "Germany is not innocent" and "Black lives matter" Deutsche Welle reported.
Demonstrators held 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence the amount of time a former police officer kneeled on George Floyd's neck, thus causing his death.
But there were protests far beyond Berlin with rallies organised in many cities across the country where tens of thousands of people demonstrated, even German football teams kneeled in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protest.
The Germans are not only expressing their outrage with police brutality in the USA but they are also protesting about the dreadful racial events that are taking place in their own country. A United Nation's group that visited Germany concluded that there were systematic problems with racism and an "incomplete understanding of history" throughout the country. They, also, found that institutional racism is rooted deep within the police establishments.
"The repeated denial that racial profiling exists, in Germany, by police authorities, and the lack of an independent complaint mechanism and the federal and state level fosters impunity," said the head of the United Nations group, Ricardo Sunga, in a statement.
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