Dozens of protesters in St. Paul marched on the Minnesota State Capitol demanding justice for George Floyd and all stolen lives, including Dolal Idd, a Somali-American killed by police less than a mile away from where Floyd was suffocated by officer Derek Chauvin, facing charges of murder.
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Dozens of protesters returned to the ICE facility in Portland to demand the immigration agency’s abolition and the immediate naturalization of all undocumented immigrants in the United States. Unlike previous days, police did not attack the crowd with tear gas or chemical munitions and allowed participants to disperse peacefully.
Hundreds of feminists protested at the La Florida borough of the Chilean capital city of Santiago after the body of a victim of femicide was discovered. 22-year-old María Isabel Pavez had been missing for 6 days before her corpse was found, sparking widespread anger among the progressives of Chile.
The Notimex Workers’ Union in Mexico City entered the 307th day of the strike that began with allegations of labor terrorism, human rights violations, contempt of workers’ rights laws, and, eventually, exposures of workers to COVID-19. Strikers stated their willingness to negotiate with the corporation, but have not received any word back.
Local far-right groups protested in Frankfurt for the end of the lockdown, with antifascists showing up to counterprotest against the anti-science demonstrators. Tensions were high and sporadic fights broke out, until police cracked down almost exclusively on the counterprotesters, hitting them with a water cannon and arresting many.
