Thousands of partygoers gathered in Huntington Beach, in Los Angeles, after organizing online, dubbing the event ‘Adrian’s Kickback’. Participants blocked roads and threw fireworks at police vehicles, with many jumping on and damaging police cruisers. Over 150 people were arrested, charged with a wide variety of offenses.
About 150 protesters marched on the ICE facility in Portland to demand the immediate abolition of the agency, which new President Biden has expressed his opposition to doing. Demonstrators were horrifically attacked with chemical weapons and munitions, including tear gas, pepper balls, TC gas (a deadlier form of tear gas and possible carcinogen), and many other forms of assault.
Lebanese protesters gathered at Al-Nour Square in Tripoli in opposition to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, demanding his fall and the end of alleged rigged elections in Syria. The road was cut off, and barricades were placed and lit on fire at the scene.
Protests in New York grew vastly, against the ruling in which the police that killed Breonna Taylor went free. The protests were in the thousands and were centered around Barclays and the Brooklyn bridge, marching from the former to the latter through the night.
Over 100 protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets to demand the release of the political prisoners of the Mapuche social struggle and 18th of October Uprising, at the same time that the new Constitutional Convention, meant to create a new constitution for Chile, met for the first time.
