Table of Contents
Protests
spaceBogota
spaceMedellin
spaceBucaramanga
spaceBarranquilla
spaceIbague
spaceDuitama
spaceManizales
spaceCucuta
spaceCali
Police Brutality
The protests have broadened to a national level, and have become more organized around leftist ideals than before, including police abolition. Protests have also expanded to at least 7 cities outside of Bogota, and most of the capital remains under protester occupation. The death toll has expanded to 14 dead, and 400 wounded. 12 out of the 14 dead have been identified.
Protests
Bogota
The protests in Bogota have adopted a different nature; as protesters become aware of their control over the city, they began to consolidate and clean up the occupied areas. Police stations are being turned into community centers and libraries, but demonstrations and police violence still do continue.
A protester sets police station on fire 
Protesters and police exchange tear gas and Molotov cocktails 
Police officer records burning street 
Protesters hold sign in front of CAI saying ‘Killers for Sale, Enemies of the People’ 
People’s Library made out of a police station 
Communist-organized People’s Library 
Community Center made from a CAI substation 
People’s Library set up in Bolivar Plaza 
Display of books in Bolivar Plaza People’s Library 
Protest organizers address the crowd from a rooftop 
DJ at a police station converted into a community center 
Protesters repainting police station 
Protesters setting up community center 
Police station mural reads ‘A center of exclusion and torture, turned into one of creativity and culture”
Medellin
Protests in Medellin are smaller than those in Bogota, but are still significant in terms of city population. Torture and beatings of protesters as well as arrests have also happened here.
Bucaramanga
Protests in Bucaramanga are nowhere near as big as in other cities, but are still an indicator that the movement does not only exist in Bogota.
Protesters set up a DJ station out of an occupied CAI.
Barranquilla
Protests in Barranquilla still have intensity, but as always, a lesser population leads to smaller protests.
Ibague
Ibague does not have an extensive history of protests, but they have engaged in anti-police demonstrations during this round of 2020 anti-police revolutions.
Duitama
The Duitama protests have been significant an militant, which is new to the nature of the city.
Manizales
Cucuta
Cali
Police Brutality
Even as 56 police stations have been captured/burned down in Bogota, violence by police is still frequent, and they are still opening fire on protesters as well as brutally beating them.
