15 protesters gathered in front of the entrance to the Krome Detention Center to the west of Miami in solidarity with the detainees inside but were blocked by a heavily armed contingent of police. Demonstrators then led chants on the highway, receiving honks of support from those passing by.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Alameda in front of the Presidential Palace in Santiago, demanding the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising. As the Senate voted on a law deciding whether or not young political prisoners should be released, families of those jailed held up photos of detainees as young as 15 held captive by the Chilean government.
Demonstrations began against both the grand jury decision to not convict the killers of Breonna Taylor and against the mayor the city who has cracked down many times on protests.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets on the anniversary of the formation of the Carabineros, the national police organization of Chile. Demonstrators called for the agency’s immediate dissolution, burning barricades and clashing with Carabineros who arrived to suppress the protest.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Columbus in the aftermath of the police murder of a man in a hospital, in which police shot the seemingly unarmed man as he attempted to escape the facility. Police attacked the demonstration, pepper spraying the frontline of protesters and making one arrest.
