Bayern Munich football club has shown its support for Black Lives Matter campaign during its match against Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement, which originated from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
During warmups, the Bayern Munich team wore shirts that said ‘Reds Against Racism’ and a Black Lives Matter hashtag.
They also sported Black Lives Matter armbands during the match.
#BlackLivesMatter #RedsAgainstRacism pic.twitter.com/1ZJfi3QESn
— FC Bayern English (@FCBayernEN) June 6, 2020
Bayern president Herbert Hainer released a statement Saturday to address the team’s support.
He said;
FC Bayern stands for a world in which racism, discrimination, hate, injustice and violence have no place. The death of George Floyd and the images from the USA have shocked us all. It is a matter of actively and loudly showing our colors. Black Lives Matter and Reds Against Racism. We stand for togetherness that goes far beyond sports.
Bayern recently kicked off its ‘Reds against Racism’ campaign to take a stand against exclusion, abuse and intolerance.
#RedsAgainstRacism #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/36gyAto6Ry
— FC Bayern English (@FCBayernEN) June 6, 2020
Since the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was killed in Minneapolis last week after being violently apprehended by police, several soccer players and teams have honoured him.
Borussia Dortmund club also wore shirts with speaking against racism.
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HUMAN pic.twitter.com/o7jwICHlZX— Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) June 6, 2020
Four Minneapolis police officers were fired last week after a video showed one of them, Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of Floyd, despite his cries that he could not breathe.
Chauvin, who was seen on video restraining Floyd by the neck, was fired and then arrested on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
The murder charge against Chauvin was later upgraded to second-degree murder this week.
On Wednesday, former officers Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng are facing charges of aiding and abetting murder.
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