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A man lighting up candle in Teplice, Czech Republic, in the place where a Romani man died in an ambulance after a police action
A ROMANI man has died in the Czech town of Teplice after police knelt on his neck, leading anti-racist campaigners to draw parallels with the killing of George Floyd in the United States last year.
Footage of the incident, circulated widely on social media, shows a police officer kneeling on the neck of 46-year-old Stanislav Tomas for about five minutes on Saturday.
In the video, the officer appears to be aware that Mr Tomas had stopped moving.
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
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