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The coronavirus has been killing as many as 4,200 people per day in Brazil, but just enough people support President Jair Bolsonaro and his contrarian coronavirus positions to undo virtually any attempt at containment, and few see any real chance of removing him from office anytime soon.
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Before he was brutally killed by racists at 14, Emmett Till had sometimes been cared for by the mother of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was shot to death by police. There are also connections between Daunte Wright and George Floyd and between Caron Nazario and Eric Garner.
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