Demonstrations began against both the grand jury decision to not convict the killers of Breonna Taylor and against the mayor the city who has cracked down many times on protests.
Protest in Chicago
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Dozens of protesters took to the streets for a 3rd consecutive day in Elizabeth City to demand justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man shot in the back of the head and murdered by several police officers, who were using assault rifles.
Thousands of protesters in Los Angeles marched in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle after an attack at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, demanding the immediate end of American support to Israel, an internationally designated apartheid state.
Over 100 protesters marched in Portland to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man murdered by a former police officer in Georgia on the 23rd of February 2020. Demonstrators sang chants against police, prisons, and capitalism, calling for the fall of the prison-industrial complex.
Hundreds of protesters in Miami gathered at the Torch of Friendship in solidarity with a national uprising in Colombia, against corruption, inequality, and police violence. Demonstrators called for the end of US arms sales to the Colombian military and the halting of support to the nation’s operations.