While mourners filed past George Floyd s body in a Free Will Baptist church in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., just 12 days after he was killed under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, tens of thousands of people across the country and around the world came together to protest his death.

They shut down part of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco , and they shut down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago . They marched past U.S. President Donald Trumps hotel in Manhattan, waving Black Lives Matter signs, and they marched under the gaze of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C . They gathered in the rain in Parliament Square in London , and they rallied in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo .

After many days of unrest, police beating protesters , police shoving elderly people , and police arresting journalists , for the first time in a generation or perhaps in history the civil rights of Black people appear to finally matter to almost everyone .

The world has reached a boiling point.

In London, protesters clashed with police on horseback and sat in silence in front of Prime Minister Boris Johnsons home, calling attention to the Conservative leaders history of racist remarks. In Berlin, thousands packed Alexanderplatz in the citys center, wielding signs with English slogans: Black Lives Matter, I cant breathe and Germany is not innocent. In Paris, a crowd formed outside the U.S. embassy, despite officials banning protests over fears of the coronavirus, while another unsanctioned rally took place near the Eiffel Tower.

I find it scandalous that all these injustices go unpunished, one 21-year-old Senegalese Ivorian student told France24 amid a crowd of people holding up signs that read Being black is not a crime and Our police are assassins.