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Protests Against Police Brutality and Trump's Secret Police Are Exploding Across the U.S.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935zwz/protests-against-police-brutality-and-trumps-goon-squads-are-exploding-across-the-usProtests in the United States against police brutality — and now also against the Department of Homeland Security’s intervention in cities — continued to explode this weekend. Police arrested well over a hundred people nationwide, and shootings at demonstrations in Austin, Louisville, and Aurora, Colorado, left several people injured and one dead.
Multiple shootings occurred over the weekend, including in Austin, where 28-year-old protester Garrett Foster was shot to death Saturday night. A video of the shooting shows several shots ringing out and protesters fleeing.
The driver told police that Foster pointed an assault rifle at them, but witnesses told the Austin American-Statesman that the driver initially tried to drive into the crowd. Foster was shot three times and later died at the hospital.
In Aurora, where protests demanding justice for Black man Elijah McClain after police put him in a fatal chokehold last year have been ongoing for weeks, demonstrators shut down both sides of a highway and a jeep drove through it. Two protesters were shot and injured, though it’s unclear who shot them. Police were searching for a “person of interest” on Sunday.
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