Global show of solidarity after George Floyd's death

From the streets of Cape Town,

to Sydney.

Thousands of protesters across the world have shown their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, following the killing of George Floyd-

an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer in the U.S. city of Minneapolis.

Thousands of demonstrators showed their solidarity in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday

saying that the issue exposes deeper grievances, not just prevalent in the United States.

Mounted police watched on.

"My mum was a protester in the apartheid, we are from South Africa, and that was like 30-40 years ago, it is pretty disappointing that we have had to come out today to protest the same thing they were protesting how many years ago. Because, I mean, the fact is that, RIP to George Floyd and I think it is a bigger issue, it is a systematic issue all over the world.''

In the British parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:

''I totally understand the anger, the grief, that is felt not just in America but around the world and in our country as well".

With sometimes violent clashes between protesters and authorities raging in the United States, Johnson added that he supported the right to lawful protest.

Murals of 46-year-old Floyd have been erected on the walls of destroyed buildings in the besieged city of Idlib

to Manchester's Stevenson Square.

In Rome, Pope Francis broke his silence on what he called the "sin of racism" during his weekly audience on Wednesday.

Showing that the outpouring of grief has crossed religious lines as well as international borders.

''I have witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest in your nation in these past days, following the tragic death of Mr George Floyd. My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.''