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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 ...
A protester is tackled by police and arrested at the pro-Palestinian protest on April 24, 2024, at the University of Texas at Austin. At least 50 troops in riot gear were deployed to disperse protesters, with reports of police on horseback and carrying batons aggressively engaging with the demonstrators. [58]
In Denver, police chief Ron Thomas told a Citizen Oversight Board he refused a campus request to clear a protest encampment for a second time on April 26 after the first raid resulted in 45 arrests.
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.
The WTO protests went on for days with continuous clashes between protesters and police with tear gas, concussion grenades and riot shields. [5] In August 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American eighteen-year-old, was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Protests began immediately following the reports his death.
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.
A protester yells "Free Palestine" as she is handcuffed by police during a demonstration in April at the University of Texas. In the wake of pro-Palestinian protests in the spring, and after an ...
At the University of Texas in Austin, at least 79 people were arrested Monday on criminal trespassing charges after law enforcement forcibly removed protesters from an encampment on South Lawn.