Hundreds of protesters gathered in Rochester the day after a police officer pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl, demanding an investigation into the event and the immediate dismissal of the officer responsible. Demonstrators marched to the police station, shaking barricades, before leaving to avoid arrests and dispersing shortly after with a caravan of support on their tail.
Hundreds of protesters gathered for a march in Elizabeth City demanding justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man killed by police with assault rifles, a day before his body would be put to rest. Groups from all over the region made a presence, with the march being one of the largest so far.
Dozens of protesters in the Lo Hermida borough of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, burning barricades and clashing with police who arrived in extremely militarized gear.
Dozens of protesters marched for a 2nd day in Rochester after the perpetrators of Daniel Prude’s murder, several police officers, were not charged. Prude had been suffocated after police put a hood over his head in March 2020, which started massive protests after body camera footage of the incident came out.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets in solidarity with detained demonstrators and to commemorate 1 month and 5 years of the beginning of Chile’s uprising against neoliberalism and inequality on the 18th of October in 2019. Police brutally cracked down on the demonstration, sending dozens of officers, water cannons, and tanks against the crowd.
