Ireland is having its George Floyd moment

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https://www.reuters.com/world/hundreds-protest-dublin-over-death-congolese-born-man-restrained-outside-store-2026-05-21/

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DUBLIN, May 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested outside Ireland's parliament on Thursday to express outrage at the death of ‌a Congolese-born man after he was restrained outside a Dublin department store in an incident some compared to the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Yves Sakila was detained by security guards on one of the capital's busiest shopping streets last Friday in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident, police said. ​He became unresponsive at the scene and was later pronounced dead.

A video of the incident widely shared later on ​social media showed Sakila being pinned to the ground by at least five men for almost ⁠five minutes as bystanders watched.

Two of the men held his face to the ground and at one point one of ​them appeared to kneel on his head or neck for a few seconds.
"We call this a George Floyd moment," said David ​Kaliba, a 35-year-old physics student who went to a north Dublin suburban high school with Sakila, referring to a Black Minneapolis man killed by a police officer who kneeled on his neck for several minutes during an arrest in May 2020.