Colombian riot police brutally attacked dozens of street vendors protesting in Bogota for a stimulus in order to stay home and not have to work in unsafe conditions in a pandemic. Tear gas and rubber bullets were deployed against peaceful demonstrators, with police armed in near military gear.
Via Colombia Informa
Hundreds in Santiago marched in honor of Itan and Tamara, both children being victims of gun violence in Chile, one killed by stray bullets from an unknown assailant and another by police during a gunfight. Demonstrators marched to the La Moneda presidential palace, asking why police resources were spent attacking protests instead of stopping gun violence.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched to decry a law recently passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece, which would allow for the creation of a national police force to enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974.
Dozens of protesters gathered in western Thessaloniki at Evosmos Square in opposition to the government management of the pandemic, forcing people to go out and work while enforcing a brutal lockdown against demonstrations of any kind at the same time.
Police attacked a crowd of roughly 150 anarchists at Syntagma Square, Athens, who were just beginning to unfurl a banner for a […]
