Tag: Police violence

• Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Colombian administration drafts protocol for police repression but protests remain on for next week

  

  Colombia's National Strike Committee Friday (CNP) decided that protests will continue in light of the negative response from the Government of President Iván Duque, although some progress regarding police repression is on the verge of being achieved.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  General strike still on for Wednesday as Colombia's government reluctant to demilitarize country

  

  Colombia's President Iván Duque Monday ordered a mass deployment of the public force to clear the roads of peaceful demonstrations he considers to be “an act of sabotage.”

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Does Colombian President Duque grasp the seriousness of the situation?

  

  In a country where 24 people have died in clashes with police and some 800 have been injured, Colombian President Iván Duque woke up Wednesday and gave a radio interview during which he addressed this year's Copa America football competition, which his country is to co-host with Argentina, and guaranteed everything will go on as planned.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Former President Uribe calls on police and army to use weapons in Colombian protests

  

  Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe on Friday urged that police and military have the right to use arms in the context of demonstrations against the tax reform being promoted by the government of Ivan Duque, his political godson. The following reactions included Human Rights groups and political figures pressing Twitter to suspend Uribe’s account, where he posted the message.

• Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 08:28 UTC

  Minneapolis City agrees to pay US$ 27 million to George Floyd family

  

  The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in May as Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Serious incidents with arson and clashes with police in Chile following the killing of a juggler

  

  The fatal shooting of a street artist in Chile led to protesters clashing with police in the capital Santiago over the weekend. The events were sparked by the death of a juggler in the southern town of Panguipulli, around 850km south of Santiago.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Protests in main Brazilian cities as security guards beat to death a black man at a Carrefour supermarket

  

  More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a Black man at the store.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  UN review criticizes US police violence, racism and separation of migrant children from families

  

  Major powers, including allies, criticized the United States for its human rights record on Monday during a U.N. review, citing the use of the death penalty, police violence against African Americans, and the separation of migrant children from their families.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

  Philadelphia under after dark curfew following the killing of a black man by police triggered looting and arson

  

  Philadelphia officials imposed a citywide after-dark curfew on Wednesday, seeking to avert a third night of violence amid protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man wielding a knife and described by family as undergoing a nervous breakdown.

• Monday, October 5th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Authorities in Chile arrest officer who allegedly threw teen ager from a bridge

  

  Authorities in Chile have arrested a police officer who allegedly threw a teen-ager from a bridge into a river bed during a protest.