Protesters in Richmond took to the streets under the banner of Black Lives Matter 757, with an attendance of about 50 people, going from the central Robert E. Lee statue to City Hall. Multiple were detained, with almost a dozen arrests after the police halted another peaceful caravan through the city.
Protesters in Nigeria destroyed and looted the residences of Gershom Bassey in Calabar, and Teslim Kolawole Folarin’s in Ibadan. Dozens of motorbikes were found in Folarin’s house, and lots of hoarded resources were found in Bassey’s, eagerly taken by deprived residents of their cities.
Health workers in a Curicó hospital joined the Chilean general strike, demonstrating against the Piñera administration, demanding more funds for a bigger salary and more effective containment of COVID-19, and the release of all political prisoners during the national uprising.
Around 75-100 protesters in Dallas gathered in solidarity with demonstrators in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, demanding justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by police officer Katie Potter on the 11th of April.
Students at the University of Piraeus in Athens occupied the campus rector’s office in protest against a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would create a university police force in Greece for the first time since the fall of a military dictatorship in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and student uprising.
