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More than 100 observers confronted ICE during door-knocking in Minneapolis' Powderhorn neighborhood. Federal agents detained three people, including a woman, and used tear gas and pepper balls as they departed, amid a broader surge of immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota.
Serbia's police used teargas and crowd control vehicles to disperse anti-government protesters in Belgrade and other towns, marking a significant escalation in ongoing protests sparked by a railway station disaster and allegations of corruption, with tensions rising and injuries reported.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers held protests across the country against alleged election rigging, facing teargas and baton charges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Karachi, and Punjab. PTI leadership called for peaceful protests and announced intraparty elections, while also accusing the delay and tampering of election results. In Karachi, PTI, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) held a joint sit-in, criticizing the Election Commission and caretaker administration. Additionally, the JUI-F announced a protest campaign, and PTI workers in Peshawar and Punjab protested against alleged election manipulation, facing police action and arrests.
French police used teargas and water cannon to disperse a banned pro-Palestinian rally in Paris, citing concerns about disturbances to public order. Despite the ban, several hundred demonstrators gathered in separate groups, chanting slogans against Israel and French President Emmanuel Macron. The interior minister had ordered the banning of all pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country. Tensions have been heightened in France since the recent Hamas attack on Israel, with an increase in antisemitic acts and harassment of Jewish children reported.
May Day protests across France turned violent as police fired teargas in Paris and other cities amid anger over President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform. The government used Article 49.3 to push the reform through parliament without a vote, sparking widespread anger. Macron insists the changes, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, are needed to reform a moribund system, but some experts say the system is in relatively good shape. Protesters rallied across Europe and Asia as populations squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets to mark May Day in a global outpouring of worker discontent.
Forensic Architecture has created a 3D simulation of the Portland police bureau’s use of teargas during a major protest event on 2 June 2020, revealing that the city’s downtown was blanketed with gas at more than 50 times the level federal regulators consider “immediately dangerous to life or health”. The research renews pressure on the scandal-ridden police department and raises significant public health and civil rights concerns at a time when law enforcement agencies in the US and across the globe are escalating their use of teargas on crowds, including against protesters for abortion rights and police accountability.