Over 100 protesters marched in Portland to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man murdered by a former police officer in Georgia on the 23rd of February 2020. Demonstrators sang chants against police, prisons, and capitalism, calling for the fall of the prison-industrial complex.
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Dozens of protesters in Bellingham, Washington State, protested after the eviction of a houseless camp in the city, calling for resources to be placed on public housing rather than arresting houseless people and throwing all of their belongings in the trash.
Dozens of protesters in Seattle marched after the police murder of a mentally ill man with a knife, demanding the abolition of the Seattle Police Department and the creation of de-escalation methods to be put in place. Demonstrators threw objects at the West Precinct and broke windows nearby before dispersing with no arrests made.
Dozens of Seattle protesters gathered at the SPD East Precinct, having a snowball fight and later disrupting police activity by building a wall of snow stopping police cars from leaving the facility.
Dozens of antifascists in Portland gathered at Director Park for a march against police, first throwing snowballs at each other and police cruisers and officers that surrounded the demonstration. As the march moved through town, smashing windows, the crowd pushed police all the way back into the precinct.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the United Nations to demand an end to the war on Tigray, a northern breakaway province of Ethiopia that has been invaded and subject to thousands of civilian deaths, with human rights organizations blocked from entering the area.
Police assaulted protesters during a 'No More State Violence' march in Seattle, arresting at least 1 person for no apparent reason other than their participation in the demonstration.
Protesters gathered at the PPBās bargaining negotiation at Portland Police Association, the Portland police union building, carrying out noise disruption to stop the negotiations and annoy those inside. Demonstrators sprayed "ACAB" on the union building's door before dispersing afterwards.
Dozens of protesters in New York City marched after the NYPD attacked a black woman in a mental health crisis, demanding the abolition of the police department due to its ineffectiveness and harm committed against residents of the 6 boroughs.
Dozens of Portland protesters gathered for an indigenous-led march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Youth 93 mile run in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Demonstrators marched across the NE Portland bridge, singing indigenous chants, then dispersing after stopping at the Army Corp of Engineers office to demand that Biden respect native tribes' wishes to rid their lands of pipelines.
Around 35 protesters in New York gathered at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center amid reports of cold, confined, unhealthy, and unsafe conditions inside, as well as the war on crime in the city that keeps filling up jails.
Protesters in Miami participated in the weekly South Beach March for Black Lives, traveling through the city's island coastline.
Over 100 prisoners in the St. Louis Justice Center took over part of the prison, breaking open windows to the joy of many outside who gathered under the facility, dancing and chanting in solidarity with the inmates who said their human rights have been violated and PPE has been denied to them.
Dozens of protesters in Washington DC took part in the weekly FTP March, moving through a popular area of the city and being assaulted by MPD officers who bike-checked demonstrators several times. Although police harassed marchers several times, no confrontations escalated into arrests.
Dozens of protesters in Washington DC participated in the Black History Month march, speaking up about rampant human rights abuses committed by police and the government of the United States against queer and black people.