| Summary: | In mid-2020, protest movements against police violence erupted around the world. Many of these were in solidarity with those protesting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and took on references to the Black Lives Matter movement. The global demonstrations were sparked by the events in the United States, but they were also part of ongoing international protest movements. In Australia, First Nations-led protests against Aboriginal deaths in police and prison custody have been a feature of the political landscape for decades (Whittaker, 2020). In Latin America the extent of police violence meant that protests against police were common occurrences (Watson, 2020). This chapter considers the shared themes that have united these global outpourings of protest against the violence of police and security forces and places them within the broader historical and contemporary framework of (de)colonialism.
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