Hundreds gathered in front of the house of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a steadily growing crowd demanding that he not be placed as Secretary of Transportation. Demonstrators made noise the entire day, then listening to organizers’ speeches and dispersing. [Credits to People’s City Council of Los Angeles for video]
Thousands of students in Athens returned to the streets for a second consecutive day, demanding the repeal of a law proposed by the Minister of Education which would restore police to university campuses across Greece and the release of all 52 people arrested during demonstrations on the 11th. Unlike the previous day, police did not attack the protesters and the march remained peaceful throughout the day.
Dozens of protesters continued demonstrations in St. Paul after the nonfatal shooting of a black man by 4 police officers, stating that other methods of de-escalation should have been used. Demonstrators marched to the still-barricaded St. Paul Police Department headquarters, with speakers including Soren Stevenson who lost an eye after being shot with a rubber bullet by Minneapolis PD.
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.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Blanchardstown, a suburb of Dublin, after the police murder of George Nkencho, a mentally ill Nigerian immigrant. Demonstrators called for a criminal investigation into Nchenko’s murder by the Gardaí, and reform against racism within government services.
