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After the University of Texas called in police — some descending on campus on horseback, others clad in riot gear — to disperse a student-organized pro-Palestine protest April 24, arresting 57 ...
Thousands of students staged walkouts at schools and college campuses across the country to demand stricter gun control in the wake of the Texas school shooting.
The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to rein in abuses and hold them accountable. [13]
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis.A video of the incident depicting Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of the Travis County Jail to support those arrested during protests at the University of Texas earlier in the day, April 24, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Unlike recent racial protests in the United States before it, the 2020 protests frequently included the slogan "defund the police", representing a call for divestment in policing. [198] The degree of divestment advocated varied, with some protesters calling for the elimination of police departments and others for reduced budgets.
The Texas Rangers, established in 1835, represent another early form of policing aimed at maintaining the interests of settlers and suppressing Indigenous populations.
Police and Texas Army National Guard at a protest in Austin on May 31, 2020. Several dozen protesters demonstrated in front of the Austin Police Department headquarters the night of May 29–30, with nine ultimately arrested. [10] On May 30, thousands of protesters again gathered outside police headquarters.