The Day 9 Los Angeles Block Garcetti protest was generally uneventful, with organizers giving out speeches to about 90 in attendance and calling on protesters to use social media to condemn Garcetti’s possibility of becoming a cabinet member under the Joe Biden administration. Many however noted the 2 dozen or so police cars that were in the vicinity of the protest despite nothing occurring.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Plaza Dignidad for a national mobilization demanding the release of political prisoners. Intense clashes occurred with police, who were repulsed from the area several times by angry crowds while trying to disperse the protesters, who finally left after nightfall arrived.
Dozens of protesters in Rethymno marched against police repression in universities, enabled by the passing of a law through Parliament by the Ministry of Education which enabled police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets for a round of demonstrations to demand the release of all detainees of the 18th of October Uprising, which spurred on nearly 1.5 years of protests in Chile against right-wing and neoliberal policies. Police reacted brutally to the demonstration, sending tanks and water cannons against the crowd.
Dozens of protesters gathered in a suburb of Minneapolis after the death of Dolal Idd, a 23-year-old son of Somali immigrants shot in a parking lot for possessing a gun. Despite being small in number, the protest occupied Hopkins Crossroads and shut down most access to the West Metro for an extended period of time.
