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Protests against police brutality, a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Demonstrations and protests against police brutality .
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 ...
Riot police dispersed demonstrators with tear gas and flash bangs. [26] A viral video from the protests showed Grand Rapids Police pepper spraying a protester and then immediately firing a tear gas canister into his shoulder. [27] [28] Into the early morning hours of May 31, looting and fires began to spread through downtown Grand Rapids. [25]
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 ...
New York police arrested nearly 300 people at Columbia University and City College of New York on April 30 during protests over the war in Gaza, setting off flash bangs to stun and disorient ...
On June 3, the county requested the Army National Guard to "assist with security in the region due to recent civil unrest." [3] [4]On June 4, law enforcement agencies with Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, El Cajon, Escondido, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside, San Diego, San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego, the San Diego Community College District, and San Diego ...
This week's unrest recalled the riots in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago after the acquittal of the white police officers who beat Rodney King, a black motorist who had led them on a high-speed chase.
Protesters demanded police reform, including more restraint during peaceful protests, lowering the police budget (defund the police), instituting reforms suggested months prior, and having more transparency and accountability in the department. The police budget was reported at 37 percent of the city's $1 billion budget, which advocates state ...