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.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Madrid at the Plaza de Callao to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested in Lleida for criticizing the Bourbon royal family of Spain.
Around 100 protesters in Durham marched to demand justice for Daunte Wright, stopping traffic in front of the Durham County Jail before spray-painting several walls in the area, also burning an American flag at the scene before dispersing with no arrests made.
Dozens of protesters in Washington DC took part in the weekly FTP March, moving through a popular area of the city and being assaulted by MPD officers who bike-checked demonstrators several times. Although police harassed marchers several times, no confrontations escalated into arrests.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Senegal after the arrest of a prominent opposition leader for allegedly politically motivated accusations of rape. The death count from police murders increased to at least 10, with hundreds of injuries from live ammunition occurring as well.
