Hundreds of protesters gathered at the weekly Stonewall demonstration for Black Trans Liberation, marching through the city before stopping for a speech given by Joel Rivera, a trans woman who was sexually assaulted by both male and female officers while in prison awaiting her bail hearing for exercising first amendment rights.
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Protesters demonstrated for a second night after the police-involved killing of Karon Hylton outside of a DC precinct, with Hylton’s family attending and being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police. Protesters began to employ fireworks as a means of deterring police, with over 10 injuries from firework strikes over the night.
100 protesters gathered in Minneapolis for a New Year’s noise demo outside of prisons, following suit with dozens of other cities across the world. Confrontations with police occurred, with 21 people arrested and 12 booked at the protest.
Protesters gathered in Antofagasta on the 1st anniversary of the police murder of Neco Mora & Ariel Moreno in 2020, who were killed by Carabineros during demonstrations at a football game against the right-wing presidency of Sebastian Piñera.
Thousands of protesters in Brooklyn, New York City, marched for a 3rd day in support of Palestine and against US support to the internationally designated apartheid state of Israel, whose security forces have a record of committing terrorist attacks against the Arab population of the area.
