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<ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kneeled three times during an anti-racism protest in <keyword id="6356687" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="canada">Canada</keyword> on Friday, in solidarity with those protesting <keyword id="1674170" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="police-violence">police violence</keyword>.</strong></li><li><strong>Trudeau, wearing a mask, turned up at the protest, part of worldwide response sparked by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in US police custody.</strong></li><li><strong>The global protests condemn US police brutality while also highlighting <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword> in each country, and Trudeau is under pressure to address racial and police violence in Canada.</strong></li><li><strong>Trudeau attended the protest the day after an indigenous woman was shot dead by police. He said police discrimination "needs to end" but did not directly answer questions about policy changes.</strong></li></ul><p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kneeled during an anti-racism protest in Canada as the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US. But there are growing calls for him to do more to address racism in Canada.</p><p>Trudeau kneeled three times alongside anti-racism protesters near Canada's parliament in Ottawa on Friday, as part of protests that have taken place in cities across the country over the previous week.</p><p>One of those times was during a nine-minute silence to represent the almost nine minutes that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd's neck for before he died. Floyd pleaded that he could not breathe before his death.</p><p>Trudeau did not speak at the protests, and wore a black mask as the coronavirus pandemic continues.</p><p>While Trudeau appears to have been the first world leader to kneel during such protests, other world leaders have come out in support of the <keyword id="3110441" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Black-Lives-Matter-movement">Black Lives Matter movement</keyword> and say they condemn racism.</p><p>The protests spread across the US after Floyd's death, with major demonstrations taking place in every state. They have been replicated in countries around the world.</p><p><keyword id="6360040" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="people">People</keyword> in Canada are calling on Trudeau both to address the situation in the US and to do more to address inequality in Canada.</p><p><div type="image" title="canada protest" height="1200" width="1800" msid="76233364" hostid="261"></div></p><p>A group of people at the protest chanted "Stand up to Trump" at him, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/trudeau-takes-a-knee-at-protest-is-urged-to-stand-up-to-trump">Bloomberg reported</a>.</p><p>The protest also came after police <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-trudeau-police-idUSKBN23C2QF?taid=5edaba5866130f000188bf90&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">killed Chantel Moore, an indigenous woman,</a> during a wellness check-in eastern Canada on Thursday.</p><p>A separate video also appeared to show police intentionally <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-trudeau-police-idUSKBN23C2QF?taid=5edaba5866130f000188bf90&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">driving into an indigenous man</a>.</p><p>Trudeau said on Friday, after these incidents but before the protest, that "far too many Canadians feel fear and anxiety at the sight of a law enforcement officer."</p><p>"Over the past weeks we've seen a large number of Canadians suddenly awaken to the fact that discrimination is a lived reality for far too many of our fellow citizens," he said, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-trudeau-police-idUSKBN23C2QF?taid=5edaba5866130f000188bf90&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">Reuters reported</a>.</p><p>He said that police discrimination against <keyword id="584766" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="indigenous-people">indigenous people</keyword> and people of color "needs to end."</p><p>But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/justin-trudeau-takes-a-knee-but-is-silent-on-reforms-to-policing">The Guardian reported</a> that Trudeau did not directly answer reporters' questions about specific government policy changes or whether he felt Canadian police were racist.</p><p>Trudeau said the issue will be discussed with his ministers, Reuters reported.</p><p><div type="image" title="canada protest" height="1200" width="1800" msid="76233370" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Some protesters said Trudeau's kneeling felt like a stunt without more firm action.</p><p>Andray Domise, a Toronto-based writer, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/justin-trudeau-takes-a-knee-but-is-silent-on-reforms-to-policing">told The Guardian</a>: "I'm not interested in bullshit publicity stunts, especially now."</p><p>"How the hell can you kneel against police brutality? When everything in your record indicates you have no problem with it. It boggles the mind to watch him turn to the camera – almost like he was confirming that he was being filmed – and kneeling."</p><p>Trudeau had been asked on Tuesday to respond to Trump's use of tear gas to clear peaceful protesters from a Washington DC park so he could take photos in front of a church.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justin-trudeau-speechless-use-of-force-peaceful-protesters-trump-photo-2020-6">Trudeau paused for more than 20 seconds before he responded</a>: "We all watch in horror and consternation what's going on in the United States."</p><p>"It is a time to pull people together, but it is a time to listen. It is a time to learn what injustices continue despite progress over years and decades."</p><p>Trudeau has also previously been under fire for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-unsure-if-more-blackface-photos-of-him-will-surface-2019-9">videos of him wearing blackface and brownface during the 1990s and 2000s</a>. The prime minister said his actions were "unacceptable" and a "terrible mistake."</p>

Justin Trudeau took the knee 3 times at an anti-racism protest, but he's being called on to do more to address Canada's racism and indigenous deaths

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Marvel Comics/Drew Angerer/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the cover of a Marvel comic.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Canadian prime minister (and <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/canadas-new-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-is-super-hot-20152010">Internet heartthrob</a>) Justin Trudeau is now a character in the Marvel Universe. </p><p>The 44-year-old politician is set to appear on an upcoming variant cover of a Marvel comic book, issue No. 5 of the "Civil War II: Choosing Sides" limited series. </p><p>Trudeau, sporting maple leaf boxing attire, is depicted resting in a ring alongside <span>Puck, Sasquatch and Aurora, all of whom are members of the Canadian superhero group Alpha Flight.</span></p><p>"I didn't want to do a stuffy cover - just like a suit and tie - put his likeness on the cover and call it a day," Toronto-based artist Ramon Perez explained, according to <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/justin-trudeau-joins-canadian-superheroes-for-marvel-comics-cover-1.3655625">CBC News</a>.</p><p>"I wanted to kind of evoke a little bit of what's different about him than other people in power right now. You don't see (U.S. President Barack) Obama strutting around in boxing gear, doing push-ups in commercials or whatnot. Just throwing him in his gear and making him almost like an everyday person was kind of fun."</p><p>The series, "Civil War II: Choosing Sides," is a tie-in to a big event where Marvel heroes are fighting over the implications of a new character who can predict the future, "Minority Report"-style. War Machine and, presumably, She-Hulk have already been killed. In the issue that Trudeau appears in, the heroes of Alpha Flight are debating which side they're on.</p><p>The cover isn't the first time that a Trudeau has been in a Marvel Comic. His father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, appeared as a character in the series "<span>Uncanny X-Men" back in 1979.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://whatevergodstherebe.blogspot.com/2013/07/y-last-man-10-downing-street-australian.html">Marvel Comics</a></span></p><p class="caption">Justin Trudeau's father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, also appeared in Marvel comics.</p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>The new comic was written by Canadian comics writer and artist <a href="https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/747772062056480768">Chip Zdarsky</a>, who said he instantly knew he wanted to include Trudea in the comic. He reportedly reached out to the prime ministers' office before going ahead with the cameo, and while they said they couldn't officially endorse it, they were cool with the superheroics. </span></p><p><span>One of the hallmarks of Marvel comics is the inclusion of real-world leaders, rather than fictional stand-ins. President Barack Obama is the president in the comics, and he famously appeared in an issue of "<span>The Amazing </span>Spider-Man."</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Marvel Comics</span></p><p class="caption">President Barack Obama and Spider-Man.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><span>Issue No. 5 of Marvel's "Civil War II: Choosing Sides," is set to come out on August 31.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/president-obama-taunts-justin-trudeau-canada-stanley-cup-beer-nhl-hockey-2016-3">'Where's the Stanley Cup right now?' - watch President Obama taunt Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="F2cGx3MTE69eJJYfv5qErv9xEcrNz79w" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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