Earlier this month, a 21-year-old son of immigrants from Cape Verde was beaten to death by a group of white men in a town near Rome. Some see the murder as a flashpoint for the Black Lives Matter movement in Italy. But as The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, prosecutors have found no evidence of racism and even the man’s parents have said race was not involved.
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