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.
Dozens of protesters in Minneapolis gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center, demanding a fair jury selection process in the Derek Chauvin trial, over which the police officer is being charged with murder after killing George Floyd via suffocation with a knee on the black man’s neck.
Riots broke out in the Kasserine province city of Sbeitla, following the death of a protester of injuries sustained when a police officer shot at his head with a tear gas canister. Demonstrators set the police station on fire and launched firecrackers at police, demanding justice for their murdered comrade-in-arms.
Clashes in the suburban commune of Trappes, located west of Paris, continued for a 5th night between a crowd of youths and law enforcement at the local police station, with a constant exchange of fireworks and tear gas that lasted throughout the night.
Dozens of Chilean environmentalists gathered in Concepción to demand the defense of the wetlands in the south-central Biobío region, as well as in opposition to the attempted revival of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). We demand tomorrow!
