Youth in Vienna rioted on New Year’s, looting and damaging several businesses and setting off fireworks in the Reumannplatz. Several clashes with police occurred, but resulted in very few arrests of young people heavily armed with fireworks.
Several branches of Anonymous launched a wave of attacks against several targets, including government websites. The 2 KKK websites, the National NASA Robotics government website, and the Modeling Guru website. The first and last stayed down for far longer, while the DDos on the 2nd one was halted for unknown reasons.
Hundreds of Iraqis gathered at the Muhammad al-Qasim Highway to place barricades and disrupt activity as part of the anti-corruption protest movement, chanting slogans against Soleimani and Iranian intervention. The Iraqi government responded by sending dozens of security forces, with heavily militarized riot police assaulting protesters on foot.
About 1000 Trump supporters gathered at the Atlanta State Capitol to protest election fraud accusations with little evidence, with about 100 antifascists gathering to counterprotest it. No fights ended up occurring, although a few confrontations did.
St. Paul protesters marched against fascism in the former Sears lot that was recently bought by agencies to train for protest response. The city stated that it had responded to over 220 protests in 2020, and the number is expected to continue increasing as economic and social hardship grip the United States.
