Hundreds of protesters in Recife took to the streets against right-wing president Bolsonaro, demanding more access to vaccines and the end of ethnic cleansing against indigenous people in the Amazon. Police attacked the peaceful demonstrations, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.
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Around 150-200 protesters in Philadelphia took to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by police in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. Demonstrators blocked traffic and moved through the city center before dispersing without arrests made.
Dozens of protesters across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu took to the streets with students and youth in West Bengal who were brutally attacked by police during a march to the State Secretariat.
Hundreds of Belgians in Brussels took to the streets after a 23-year-old black immigrant died in jail after being taken into custody by police during a home raid to enforce quarantine orders. A police station was set on fire, with intense clashes occurring between security forces and demonstrators who threw Molotov cocktails and rocks.