Over 100 protesters gathered for Day 13 of the Block Garcetti protests, before seeing the LAPD move into a cluster in front of the LA mayor’s house. Police were then filmed visibly attacking the protesters, causing more than 20 injuries and arresting several people.
Hundreds of protesters in Bangkok returned to the streets and clashed with police in opposition to the monarchy of Thailand, also demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut, a general who took power in the 2014 military coup and is widely held responsible for the mismanagement of COVID & lack of access to vaccines.
Saad Hariri was overthrown by protesters in late 2019, but has been re-inaugurated to replace the government that resigned after the explosion. His supporters burned down the Revolution Fist monument in the center of Beirut, at the center of both the 2019 and 2020 protests.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the northern city of La Serena, protesting for the resignation of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, and the release of political prisoners as well as the COVID bonus for hospitals that was promised by the government but never arrived.
Protesters gathered in the central Greek city of Volos on the 6-month anniversary of the death of Vasilis Maggos, a 27-year-old who was mysteriously found dead one month after being brutally beaten by police at an environmentalist demonstration against burning trash. Vasilis had been left with many ribs broken until he was close to dying from asphyxiation and dehydration; police then took him to a freezer and gave him water drop by drop.
