Protestors have set up a guillotine outside the home of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, in Washington D.C.

A guillotine is an apparatus designed to efficiently carry out executions by beheading. Its best known for its use in France, particularly during the French Revolution, where it was used to execute Marie Antoinette.

Beneath the guillotine is a sign that reads: "Support our poor communities, not our wealthy men."

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The demonstrators are calling for Amazon - which is one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world - to be abolished.

The guillotine was placed outside the 56-year-old's home on Sunday, June 28th, after an invite started making the rounds on social media calling for people to attend the protest, which was titled March On Jeff Bezos' House.

Footage has emerged from the event showing demonstrators gathering around Bezos' home, which is close to Amazon's global headquarters.

In one video, people can be heard chanting: "When they become threatened, and we have no voice, the knives come out."

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The flyer used to advertise the event details that the point of the march was to "abolish the present" and to "reconstruct our future".

"Amazon works directly with the police to surveil us, stoking racist fears in the name of profit. Doubling down on their union busting and mistreatment of workers, Amazon fired and racially slandered labour organiser Chris Smalls," it reads. "Join us, tell Jeff Bezos enough is enough. End the abuse and profiteering. Abolish the police, the prisons and Amazon."

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The leaflet references Amazon's former employee, Chris Smalls, who was employed at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse for five years before he was fired for reportedly organizing a walkout over an alleged lack of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This comes after Bezos said he would be "happy to lose" customers who are not in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has been reignited in recent weeks following the death of George Floyd.

"We believe Black Lives Matter. We stand in solidarity with our Black employees, customers, and partners, and are committed to helping build a country and a world where everyone can live with dignity and free from fear," the company asserted in a statement.

The protest outside Bezos's house is reportedly not connected with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Protestors set up guillotine outside billionaire Jeff Bezos's house