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.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered for a 5th day in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center to demand justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was murdered by a police officer during a traffic stop. Police abandoned a previously heavy-handed strategy and allowed the crowd to disperse peacefully without tear-gas or munitions.
Protesters in Port-au-Prince placed and burned tires as barricades demanding the release of student leader Ti-Nèg and all other prisoners of the popular uprising in Haiti illegally detained by police forces, which include 2 Dominican film-makers.
Anonymous, a group that was seen to be very present in the early stages of the George Floyd Uprising in the United States, has returned to attack the Colombian police’s websites, taking them down for hours, and in some instances, whole days. The websites of the Defense Ministry and the National Police were taken down.
Tens of thousands of protesters in Bogota returned to the streets for a 2nd day of demonstrations as part of a general strike against neoliberalism in Colombia and the Tributary Reform, which would put in place a tax hike on basic goods and services such as utilities including water and electricity.
