Black Lives Matter demonstrators turned out in the hundreds to protest brutality in the local Providence Police Department, which similar to most, has suffered criticism of its handling and discrimination towards people of color and minorities. No major clashes with police occurred.
Protesters gathered in the central Greek city of Volos on the 6-month anniversary of the death of Vasilis Maggos, a 27-year-old who was mysteriously found dead one month after being brutally beaten by police at an environmentalist demonstration against burning trash. Vasilis had been left with many ribs broken until he was close to dying from asphyxiation and dehydration; police then took him to a freezer and gave him water drop by drop.
Portland protesters on night 200 made it to the top of the Portland Police Association (PPA), a prominent police union building, placing a guillotine on top as well as a banner calling for the union’s abolition.
Around 200 Greek anarchists and communists in Patras gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the communist revolutionary prisoner’s request to be returned to his old call at the Korydallos prison.
Hundreds of protesters in the Athens neighborhood of Gyzi took to the streets in opposition to police brutality and state repression in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with police attacking recent mass demonstrations across Greece.
