Demonstrations began in the New Mexico city shortly after the Breonna Taylor grand jury announcement.
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Hundreds of anarchists in Los Angeles took to the streets on the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s murder by police via dozens of gunshots after her house was raided with a no-knock warrant by law enforcement. Protesters were able to use a shield wall to push out of kettles and avoid as many arrests as possible, also resisting chemical weapons.
Dozens took to the streets of uptown Minneapolis following the police murder of Winston Smith, who was leaving a date when he was shot multiple times inside his car by secret police officers wearing plainclothes. Demonstrators set fire to a dumpster and blocked roads until police arrived and aggressively used flashbangs to attack the crowd.
Dozens of protesters continued demonstrations in St. Paul after the nonfatal shooting of a black man by 4 police officers, stating that other methods of de-escalation should have been used. Demonstrators marched to the still-barricaded St. Paul Police Department headquarters, with speakers including Soren Stevenson who lost an eye after being shot with a rubber bullet by Minneapolis PD.
Protesters across New York dropped banners for a wide variety of reasons, including rent cancellation, a 2nd stimulus, and the freeing of all prisoners of ICE held in cages in the city’s detention facility. There was also a #NoNBKPipeline banner dropped from the top of a building, to compensate for the lack of activity that has been going on against it.