Protesters took to the streets in Vancouver, Washington, after the shooting of Kevin Peterson by police at least 5 times in the back for running away while unarmed. Within an hour of the news, 30 protesters had showed up to begin fighting with police; it would be 11 hours before Peterson Jr.’s body was taken away.
Colombian riot police brutally attacked dozens of street vendors protesting in Bogota for a stimulus in order to stay home and not have to work in unsafe conditions in a pandemic. Tear gas and rubber bullets were deployed against peaceful demonstrators, with police armed in near military gear.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in New York for the weekly Stonewall march, demanding the abolition of the NYPD and calling it out for its discrimination against people of color and the LGBTQ+ community. Dozens of bike cops trailed the demonstration, ready to attack if any confrontations broke out, but no arrests ended up occurring.
Thousands of protesters in Manizales took to the streets in opposition to decades of neoliberal policies in Colombia and the Tributary Reform, which would tax basic goods and services such as utilities. Police attacked the demonstration, deploying tear gas and causing a mass dispersal of the crowd.
Around 100 protesters in Portland marched to demand the halt of the Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline in Minnesota, which would possibly poison the local rivers in the area and compromise water supplies. Demonstrators first went inside several banks supporting the project, demanding the halt of funding for the pipeline, and then were attacked by DHS at the federal courthouse before later dispersing.
