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January 2023 protest signs. On March 5, 2023, protesters threw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers, and destroyed various construction vehicles. [4] [2] Hours later, police raided the nearby South River Music Festival and detained 35 people, alleging that vandals had hidden in the crowd. [18]
Police officers largely avoided the area surrounding the square in the months after Floyd's murder, furthering the perception that the area was a "police-free" or "no-go" zone. [3] In some instances, police were unwilling to enter the area to retrieve victims of crimes, and asked victims to exit the barricaded perimeter to receive aid.
This map displays cities with George Floyd protests with more than 100 participants. The map data is stored in Wikimedia Commons to work around software issues with the amount of data when stored locally. There is a master map data file containing all protests and jurisdiction-specific map files containing protests only within a region.
The proposed location for the facility is the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, and opponents of the facility are concerned about the growth of policing in the city—which has witnessed several protests against police violence following the 2020 murder of George Floyd and the killing of Rayshard Brooks, [1] both by police officers. [2] [3]
They came from the Columbus Police Department, a 13-member "Police Dialogue Team" that was formed a couple of years ago to approach protests differently. The goal is to facilitate people's ...
Several police and protesters were injured, several police were suspended, and thousands of protesters were arrested, mostly on minor charges. [123] District attorneys for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx announced plans to decline prosecuting certain low-level offenses. [123] Smaller protests took place outside New York City.
George Washington University said it would move its law school finals from a building next to the protest encampment to a new location because of the noise. The current wave of protests was ...
Protests emerged the evening of December 30 after police shot and killed Dolal Idd at a Holiday gas station near the intersection of Cedar Avenue and East 36th Street in Minneapolis. The shooting happened at approximately 6:15 p.m., less than a one mile (1.6 km) from where George Floyd was murdered in May, [ 120 ] and was the first fatal police ...