Dozens of protesters in Miami took to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Despite a large police buildup at the demonstration with officers on bikes trailing the crowd, no confrontations occurred.
Police in Greece attacked students occupying the Rector’s Office at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of the law allowing police on university campuses. Dozens of brutal arrests were made, in response to which hundreds of demonstrators marched to the rectorate and then to the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters where the arrested students were being held.
Protesters in Peru have been hit by shocking brutality from government forces, with helicopters filmed throwing tear gas from above. Tear gas and live bullets have been deployed all over the Lima district, with over 3 protesters registered dead. #PeruvianLivesMatter began trending on Twitter, accumulating more than 700,000 tweets. Many do not anticipate any positive developments happening in the protests.
Dozens of students in the northwestern Greek city of Ioannina took to the streets during a national mobilization against a bill proposed by Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize university campuses with an elite police squad. Despite a ban on gatherings in place, police did not attack the demonstration.
Activists dropped a banner at the New York Public Library in Midtown, demanding the abolition of ICE and immediate, permanent protection for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
