A demonstration in Portland took place on the 30th, not for Breonna Taylor as most of the country is protesting right now, but for Patrick Kimmons, a man killed by police in Portland in 2018. Protesters demand that his case be reopened as he showed no acts of aggression towards police before death. A demonstration in Portland took place on […]
Monthly Archives: September 2020
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Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio, took to the streets on the 29th to protest the presidential debate that would be held later that day, and the handling that both presidential candidates have slipped on for months upon months since June.
The police in Portland aggressively assaulted protesters, pre-emptively attacking their camp before the demonstration even began as well as immediately beginning to arrest protesters after it began.
An anti-American protest in Athens took place against the visit to the country by Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, who is seen by many Greek leftists as imperialist. America has a history of intervention in the region dating back to the 1800s, and is still well despised by the populace after backing the military dictatorship that lasted between 1967-1974.
In the city of Little Rock in the state of Arkansas, around the center of the United States, went on strike due to the state's enforcement of in-person learning, which is feared to cause a spike in infections and deaths in the state among students and teachers alike.
Police in Los Angeles have developed a new strategy for police brutality, which pertains to beating people with the edges or simply the front of shields to subdue them and discourage them from ever coming back to a protest in the near future.
Protesters took to the streets again a week after the grand jury ruling of Breonna Taylor that ruled her killers innocent on the 23rd of September. The same protest groups remained on the streets for a week straight on end, with certain protests ending with police more violently reacting to the demonstrations.
About 200 protesters demonstrated against the grand jury decision on the Breonna Taylor case for a consecutive 4th day, in what has become a nationwide movement as a sequel to the George Floyd Uprising.
On the 26th of September, the Proud Boys organized rallies in Portland, getting a crowd of ~150 heavily armed men, mostly white. Antifascist organizations in the city quickly heard about the planned rallies and responded by organizing their own, both of which had turnout in the thousands.
Anonymous, a group that was seen to be very present in the early stages of the George Floyd Uprising in the United States, has returned to attack the Colombian police's websites, taking them down for hours, and in some instances, whole days. The websites of the Defense Ministry and the National Police were taken down.
Protests in New York grew vastly, against the ruling in which the police that killed Breonna Taylor went free. The protests were in the thousands and were centered around Barclays and the Brooklyn bridge, marching from the former to the latter through the night.
Demonstrations in Louisville continued after the grand jury ruling rendering Breonna Taylor's killers innocent. This is the third consecutive night that protesters have taken to the streets demanding the arrest and abolition of the police.
Demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland among other cities in California for a 3rd day to protest the Breonna Taylor grand jury ruling.
Protesters engaged in demonstrations on the 3rd day after a grand jury ruling determined that the police that murdered Breonna Taylor were innocent.
Police in Memphis have been seen with newly developed 'taser shields', that are used by hitting people in the skin, which delivers them an electric shock. It appears as though the Department of Justice/National Guard has given them these.