In Chicago, police used pepper spray and batons to repel hundreds of demonstrators, who took to the streets calling for the defunding of police. One protester was seen apparently bashing an officer over the head with a skateboard. Officers then ripped umbrellas and bikes from protesters' hands and sprayed the crowd with a chemical irritan. The demonstrations began at Chicago's iconic Bean before the group traveled to Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive. Multiple arrests were witnessed at the scene. The group then continued to Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, heading toward Chicago's Loop as city bridges remained lifted, preventing them from crossing the Chicago River. A heavy police presence was seen in the area with several officers both in front and behind the marching demonstrators and other lines of officers blocking streets.

In Portland, day 80 of protests against systemic racism and police brutality saw gunshots fired. Saturday began with a noon counter-protest, as around 30 right-wing demonstrators gathered in front of the Justice Center to support police. A seemingly equal number of protesters arrived there to oppose them, Oregon Live reported, and skirmishes broke out between the opposing demonstrations. The pro-police protesters maced and fired some kind of pellet guns toward counter-protesters. A witness on the KOIN live stream said a protester had thrown a bottle at the car carrying right-wing protesters before the shots were fired.

In Georgia, supporters of the Confederate flag argued and tussled with BLM activists at Stone Mountain, just outside Atlanta. The park was closed on Saturday after several far-right groups, including militias and white supremacists, announced plans to rally, and a broad coalition of leftist anti-racist groups organized a counter-demonstration. The militia-backed protesters were met by hundreds of counter demonstrators eager to shout them down. That group included mainline civil rights organizations like the NAACP but also far-left anarchists and socialists, some of whom arrived with assault weapons and were as heavily armed as the militia. Saturday’s demonstration drew a large police presence from around the metro area and the Georgia State Patrol, but they stayed on the periphery of the protests, and there were no arrests.