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Occupy Texas State is a student activist group formed at Texas State University - San Marcos. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is distinguished from the off-campus but allied Occupy San Marcos . Occupy Texas State utilizes the principles of peaceful protest that began on October 5, 2011 [ 3 ] in the Quad around the " Fighting Stallions ".
The George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2020 (LETIA) is a subtitle of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 which aims to reduce the prevalence of police brutality by fostering connections between police departments and communities. The bill also calls for national policing standards and accreditations. [1] The bill died in ...
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.
Riot police are tasked with police operations that require advanced tactics and equipment to control crowds and maintain public order. These duties may differ between riot police organizations in different countries, but they are often similar in that they are tasked with maintaining order that is decided on by the presiding government.
Though nearly every state has an anti-hazing law, the measures vary in scope and impact, according to the advocacy group StopHazing. Earlier attempts to put a federal law on the books have fizzled ...
Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or ...
Two reports, one submitted to the L.A. Police Commission and the other released by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, criticize UCLA and the police response to the spring pro ...