'Police brutality is real for someone who looks like me,' Pretty Yende, who is Black, said in a social media post on June 22. Photo: Pretty Yende/Instagram
South African opera star Pretty Yende said she was detained by French authorities, strip searched and held in a dark room at Paris’ main airport after arriving this week for a starring role at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.
"Police brutality is real for someone who looks like me, ” Yende, who is Black, said in a social media post Tuesday, a day after the encounter at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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