On the 4th of October, a small group of Patriot Prayer members held an anti-BLM rally in Portland. Counterprotestors quickly arrived, with confrontations but no major fights occurring until the slightly larger BLM counterprotest pushed the right-wing group out of the city. Patriot Prayer was heavily armed with assault weapons as well.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bogota for a 5th consecutive day of demonstrations against the privatization of healthcare and police violence in Colombia. Police attacked demonstrators, who gathered at a variety of sites across the city, using tear gas, tanks, and live rounds to attempt to suppress the protests.
Dozens of protesters in Minneapolis gathered outside of the Hennepin County Government Center to demand justice for George Floyd, thanking Darnella Frazier, the filmer of Floyd’s murder, for her bravery while testifying in court.
Protesters have demanded a state of emergency imposed to combat femicide and human trafficking in Namibia, which suffers from extreme disappearance rates. […]
Around 300 protesters gathered at the Justice Center in Portland around nightfall on the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s murder, demanding justice for the black woman killed in Louisville by police who opened fire into her home using a no-knock warrant.
