40 Portland protesters turned out in front of the house of City Commissioner Dan Ryan, who voted no on defunding the police in the city. Demonstrators threw a flare, a paint balloon, and broke a window. The Unified Command responded immediately, forcing protesters on the sidewalk, but no activists were arrested. 1 member of the press was however taken into custody for unknown reasons.
Protesters in Baltimore marched during the weekly FTP demonstration, demanding divestment from police budgets into healthcare, housing, and other services respondent to the needs of the people. Police closely trailed the march, but in a rare turn of events did not attack the protest.
Hundreds of protesters across Eswatini returned to the streets in a wave of anti-monarchy unrest following the police murder of a young man, demanding democracy be implemented in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Demonstrators blocked roads and clashed with police, also blockading and defending the homes of pro-democracy activists.
Protests in Washington D.C. were one of the biggest in the country following the release of the police and the confirmation of their innocence in the Breonna Taylor case.
Protesters have demanded a state of emergency imposed to combat femicide and human trafficking in Namibia, which suffers from extreme disappearance rates. […]
