As the massage continued, I let my guard down and relaxed completely. But I stopped feeling nervous within seconds he was super professional.
His first touch on my skin made me jump – no guy other than my boyfriend had ever touched me like that. At that moment, I decided to trust him – what else could I do, really? I’d paid for the massage already, and I was – truth be told – kinda curious about this experience.
And so in calm voice, he asked me to just relax and keep my mind blank and free from thought. Only the lower half of my body was now covered with the towel that they had provided. He smiled gently and asked me to lie down on the massage bed. It was a man! I was a bit shocked because I had never gotten a massage from a man before. I had a good feeling about this.Īfter a couple of minutes, I heard the door open. The lights were dim and a floral aroma clouded the room. I was nervous and equally excited while waiting in the spa room for my massage therapist. I booked an appointment and they asked me to get ready. I said to myself: “This is it! I’m going to go in there and get myself pampered.”Īll went well initially. While I was strolling around the place, a beautiful Thai spa caught my attention. One day, I was walking down the streets of Pattaya. Now, I recently made a trip to Thailand, and I was told that if you don’t get a Thai massage while you’re in Thailand, you’re missing something!
“All this is connected to the slavery past in Brazil where Blacks were whipped night and day,” Adami told The Guardian.I love getting massages! They make me feel completely relaxed and energized – enough to be able to face the hectic week ahead of me. But it was filmed,” Humberto Adami, a Black lawyer from Rio de Janeiro, told the newspaper.Īdami, who’s also president of the Brazilian bar association’s Black Slavery Truth Commission, said the fact the guards filmed “the torture” showed they were sure they would not get caught. “We will give all the support needed.”įor some Black Brazilians, the video shows how deeply rooted racism is in Brazil, where more than half of the population identifies as Black or of mixed race, The Guardian reported. “We were shocked by the gratuitous and meaningless torture on a teenage victim,” the company said in the statement. The supermarket said in a statement to the media that the supermarket no longer contracts with the company that employs the guards. He said it was the third time the same guards assaulted him allegedly for stealing from the supermarket and that he’d been living on the streets since he was 12 years old, Folha de S.Paulo reported. “They said if I spoke to anyone, they would kill me,” he told the news source.
The boy told TV Globo the guards threatened him if he spoke up about the incident. He added that the crime of torture carries a prison sentence of up to eight years. “They tied him up and whipped him until he promised to not do it again,” de Souza told The Guardian. The boy told de Souza the guards stopped him as he was leaving the supermarket. He started looking into the incident, interviewed the victim and identified the two security guards, he told the British newspaper. He described the victim as “a defenseless, homeless black man … A victim of society, I would say.”ĭe Souza told The Guardian he was “extremely shocked” when a journalist sent him the video on Monday regarding the alleged theft at a Ricoy supermarket. “It is like a scene from centuries ago,” detective Pedro Luis de Souza told The Guardian. He shook his head, unable to speak because he was gagged.
Two security guards who were contracted by a Ricoy supermarket in Brazil are accused of whipping a teen while naked for allegedly stealing chocolate. “Are you going to come back?” someone can be heard asking the child in the 40-second video. The unidentified 17-year-old boy’s trousers were around his ankles when the footage showed him being beaten with an electric cable inside a private jail in São Paulo, according to the Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Cellphone video of a Black boy naked and whimpering while being whipped in Brazil allegedly for stealing four chocolate bars is dredging up a painful history in the country for Black Brazilians.