[1][2] Six people were indicted by the Public Ministry for homicide, including two security guards (one of them a temporary military police officer) and four Carrefour employees.

[12] On November 19, 2020, the day before Black Consciousness Day, João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a forty-year-old black man, was murdered by security guards Magno Braz Borges and Giovane Gaspar da Silva, an ex-military man and a temporary military police officer, in a Carrefour hypermarket store, located in the Parthenon neighborhood, on the east side of the city of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul.

[22] According to the Civil Police investigation, Dutra gave false explanations about the reason for the victim's restraint, lied about having been assaulted, and commanded the action of three employees to prevent other people from helping Freitas.

Paulo Francisco da Silva pulled Freitas's wife by the arm, thereby preventing her from helping her husband and intimidating the other people present not to film the scene or approach.

[24] The security guards were arrested preemptively and accused of triple homicide: for futile reasons[clarification needed], by suffocation, and by a means that prevents the victim from defending himself.

There were demonstrations in the streets of São Paulo, with many protesters demanding justice and asking for a boycott of the hypermarket chain that has already been involved in several previous cases of violence.

[37][38][39][40] In Rio de Janeiro, one of the chain's units in Barra da Tijuca was forcibly closed by demonstrators, who stood in front of the store with a large banner with the phrase "Stop killing us".

[41] Musicians Tico Santa Cruz, Nego do Borel and Pretinho da Serrinha participated in the act, in addition to actress Patrícia Pillar.

[52] President Jair Bolsonaro, in turn, did not offer condolences to the family and, at a G20 meeting, the day after the murder, questioned the existence of racism in Brazil, claiming that miscegenation is the essence of the Brazilian people and "that there are those who want to destroy it, and put in its place conflict, resentment, hatred and division between races, always masquerading as a struggle for equality or social justice".

[54] The president of the Federal Supreme Court, Luiz Fux, asked for a minute of silence in memory of Freitas, during a ceremony that announced the partnership between Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares and the National Council of Justice.

[55] In addition to Fux, justices Alexandre de Moraes, Gilmar Mendes and Luís Roberto Barroso mourned the death of Freitas, stating that the case demonstrates the need to combat structural racism in Brazil.

[59] The United Nations Organization stated, in a statement, that the murder of Freitas is "an act that highlights the different dimensions of racism and the inequalities found in the Brazilian social structure".

[60] A spokeswoman for the organization's Human Rights Council called for a "prompt, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent" investigation and that it should "examine whether racial prejudice played a role".

[62] The international press also covered the case, comparing it to the murder of George Floyd, which occurred months earlier in the United States, and which provoked a series of demonstrations around the world.

[63] Porto Alegre football clubs, such as Grêmio, Internacional and São José, of which he was a supporter, demonstrated after the murder of Freitas, preaching the permanent fight against racial discrimination.

[64] Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton posted a photo of a protest against death in Porto Alegre with the caption "another black life lost".

[68] The six indicted by the police were denounced by the State Public Prosecutor's Office (MP-RS), on December 17, for triple-qualified homicide with possible intent (awkward motive, cruel means and resource that made it difficult for the victim to defend himself).

[69] The complaint was accepted by Judge Cristiane Busatto Zardo, from the 2nd Jury Court of Porto Alegre, who considered that there was sufficient evidence of authorship in the piece prepared by the MP-RS, and the six accused became defendants.

[74] In June 2021, Carrefour closed an agreement worth 120 million reals, and is exempt from any lawsuit due to the Conduct Adjustment Term (TAC).