In Bordeaux, several hundred people paid tribute to George Floyd, this African-American killed by the American police a week ago. The demonstrators also put one knee on the ground, one of the rallying signs of the movement against police violence. 

Some 300 people attended a static rally in Bordeaux on Monday in tribute to George Floyd, a black American who died of suffocation during a police arrest in Minneapolis. The demonstrators, some of whom displayed "Black Lives Matter" signs, observed a minute's silence with one knee on the ground.

This gesture was popularized by an American football player, Colin Kaepernick, who in the United States has become a spokesperson for protests against police violence, especially against minorities of color.

At the rally for George Floyd in Bordeaux, a minute of silence is respected, those present kneel on the ground as we have seen in recent days during the demonstrations in the USA. # GeorgeFloyd # bordeauxpic.twitter.com / iZ5qqWQmU2

- Valentin Stoquer (@val_stoquer) June 1, 2020

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"We don't want to be spectators in the face of racism, neither in the USA, nor in France" 

"We do not want to be spectators in the face of racism. Neither in the USA nor in France. Silence in the face of racist violence is neither dignified nor acceptable," explained the organizers in their call for the rally, broadcast on Sunday via the networks social. They called for a grouping on the forecourt of Human Rights, in the city center, "in compliance with health rules", with masks and social distancing. The vast majority of protesters wore the mask.

The death by suffocation a week ago of George Floyd, 43, during an arrest by a white police officer captured on video, led to demonstrations and violence in many cities in the United States, including near the White House in Washington.