Demonstrators burned a US flag near the stadium in northern Brazil where Vice President Joe Biden planned to attend the US soccer team’s opening World Cup match Monday evening.
The protesters in Natal shouted against “imperialism.” Security officers stopped them at a barricade about 2 kilometers (a mile) from the stadium’s gates.
Anti-World Cup demonstrations also took place in the southern city of Curitiba before a match between Iran and Nigeria.
After being repelled by police near that stadium, protesters regrouped downtown and used bricks and construction debris to smash windows of at least three banks. They also sprayed anti-World Cup slogans on city buses.
Mass protests against the World Cup erupted across Brazil last year and demonstrations have continued since the tournament began Thursday.