FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a meeting of the special committee on the COVID-19 outbreak in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Many Canadians are watching the riots in parts of the United States with shock and horror, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday in a highly unusual commentary on American domestic affairs.
“Anti-black racism – racism – is real. It’s in the United States but it’s also in Canada,” he told reporters. Minneapolis has been rocked by a third night of violent protests over the death of an unarmed black man after a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground following arrest.
Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
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