Hundreds of people protested in Tokyo today against racist police violenece. The reason was not only Minneapolis, but first of all the violent arrest and beating in broad daylight of a kurdish man living in Tokyo. A short thread. #0530渋谷署前抗議

The demo started at the famous shibuya Square, one of the most lively places of Tokyo. Autonomous antifascists, people from political parties, anarchists and people form different other political groups and backgrounds gathered.

At the Shibuya Police station it got really loud, the people chanted "Turn over the criminal policemen!". Unfoetunately, the police started to attack rhe demo, beat people and arrested one activist. #0530渋谷署前抗議

There are still people infront of Shibuya police station, demanding the release of the activist.

I've never in my life seen such a strong demo in Japan. So much soludarity throughoutbso many political spectres. A good day indeed. #0530渋谷署前抗議

You can find A LOT more pictures an Videos under the hashtag #0530渋谷署前抗議 . You can also see some of the police violence there. And of course much more of the powerful demo.

If you can read german and want to know more about antifa, squatting and other radical movements in japan, check out my blog http://zatsudan.at 
Also, check @naminanamix , she's your JP-ENG translation link to Japan, an anarch@-feminist from Tokyo.

Also: If yoy want to know more about Japan's rich history of leftist social movements and radical activism, I can highly recoomend the book "Dissenting Japan" from the wonderful @TokyoStages

There will be another protest against racist police-violence in Tokyo next saturday, the 6th of june. This one is expected to be even bigger than the protest last week.

When: 6th June, 14:45
Where: Hachiko-Statue, Shibuya Station

Follow the Hashtag: #0606渋谷署前抗議