Protesters in North Brooklyn against the pipeline gathered in the dozens, demonstrating against a fracked gas pipeline that would begin to go through poor and majority-black neighborhoods. The NBP has been long delayed by protesters who sit-in and halt construction at the site almost every day.
Hundreds of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man murdered in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. Police attacked the demonstration as it was ending, making several arrests as the rest of the crowd dispersed.
Hundreds of activists from the Ende Gelände environmentalist group continued protests against the clearing of the Dannenrod forest to create an unnecessary and useless highway. Police deployed a water cannon on the forest defenders in sub-zero temperatures, causing many to leave the area in fear of getting hypothermia. Police eventually retreated from the site.
About 100 protesters gathered in Manhattan for an Abolish ICE demonstration when a car drove through the crowd, killing no one but leading to the hospitalization of 6. The driver could be seen intentionally accelerating towards the crowd as the car rammed through, leading to her arrest.
Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Algeria on the 2nd anniversary of the national Hirak movement’s birth, calling for the fall of the military establishment and chanting slogans in support of the indigenous Berber movement.
