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Some Facebook commenters focused on professional sports leagues support of Black Lives Matter when they read this Facebook post: "BLM injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage and gets celebrated by pro sports?". 'Many protesters were left injured and bleeding. It looks, for all the world, like these protests are achieving what very few do: setting in motion a period of significant, sustained, and widespread social, political change, Professor McAdam said. George Floyd was an unarmed African-American man who died while he was being detained by police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, shortly after 8:00 p.m. CDT, near the Cup Foods grocery store at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, while other officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas . Victor Cazares Jr was described by friends and family as a supporter of Black Lives Matter. We need your help. These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the countrys history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts. Stephen Yang It is galling, but by now we should be used to the protected. A makeshift memorial dedicated to Tyler Gerth, a photographer who was shot and killed at a protest in Louisville. Kids in England had to wear masks at school because No10 'didn't want an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon - Health ministers knew there was no evidence to justify making kids abide by rule of 6 - but No10 'didn't Charles evicting Harry and Meghan is the act of a King putting his country first: REBECCA ENGLISH reveals A royal princess at Eton? The comments below have been moderated in advance. "One movement, in the case of Black Lives Matter, is really a critique, an attempt to undermine white supremacy. A police officer climbed over the cop cars while wielding their batons, a Human Rights Campaign investigation found, A protester is pictured here being surrounded by officers at the protest on June 4, 2020, A protester at the Bronx demonstration is pictured with a flag saying 'Breathe', likely a reference to George Floyd's cry of 'I can't breathe' as he was murdered by Derek Chauvin 10 days earlier, A subsequent report from the Human Rights Campaign found the cops acted in a way that was 'unprovoked and without warning, whaling their batons, beating people from car tops, shoving them down to the ground and firing pepper spray in their faces.'. That came in response to looting and riots that swept New York in the wake of Floyd's killing by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Protesters are holding numerous processions and memorial services to commemorate George Floyd on the day before his planned six-hour funeral in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Note: Surveys are of the adult population in the United States, Source: 2018 Census via Social Explorer; Crowd Counting Consortium protests database; New York Times protests database, from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. ", People not vaccinated against COVID-19 came out the best. The protests are colliding with another watershed moment: the countrys most devastating pandemic in modern history. It relied on data collection from the U.S. Crisis Monitora joint project led by ACLED and Princeton Universitys Bridging Divides Initiativethat tracks and publishes real-time data on political violence and demonstrations in the U.S in order to establish an evidence base from which to identify risks, hotspots and available resources to empower local communities in times of crisis.. The ACLED report includes protests toppling statues of colonial figures, slave owners and Confederate leaders as violent incidents. Officers injured: The New York Post reported on June 8, citing the U.S. Justice Department, that more than 700 law enforcement officers were injured on the job during nationwide protests over Floyds death. The unrest in some cities after some Black Lives Matter protests included vandalism and looting; however, many of these events were rooted in confrontations with police after peaceful protesters left. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. ", "It was as though two sets of rules apply," Morial said. But the amount of change that the protests have been able to produce in such a short period of time is significant. The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible as a sign that reads "Black Lives Matter" hangs on an overpass on North Capitol Street in Washington on June 2, 2020. Four recent polls including one released this week by Civis Analytics, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. At least six people were arrested in Washington D.C. Tuesday as Trump supporters flocked to the capital. There is a Black Lives Matter national organization, which says it has more than a dozen U.S. chapters, along with countless numbers of individuals who support the organization. At least 11 Americans have been killed while participating in political demonstrations this year and another 14 have died in other incidents linked to political unrest, according to new data from a non-profit monitoring political unrest in the United States. In New York, lawmakers repealed a law that kept police disciplinary records secret. 'It is absolutely incumbent upon the police to make sure that does not proceed, because we won't tolerate violence,' he said. One of the reasons there have been protests in so many places in the United States is the backing of organizations like Black Lives Matter. Danielsons suspected killer, Michael Reinoehl, was a leftwing protester who called himself an anti-fascist, and who was later shot to death by law enforcement officials, an outcome Donald Trump referred to as retribution. We found no evidence that the toll from protests against police brutality is as high as the numbers in the post. Meanwhile, the New York Police Department said its policies and training for large-scale demonstrations have been revised, based on internal reviews and recommendations from three outside agencies that investigated police actions following the 2020 mass protests. ", stated on February 26, 2023 in an Instagram post. The Association detailed the unrest and compiled data from protests between May 25 and July 31 in MCCA member cities, Fox News reports. Oscar Cainer tells all. As officials investigate further, the number is paltry when compared to the arrests made in D.C. during protests for racial justice last summer after George Floyd was killed in police custody, with hundreds of people being arrested for unrest-related offenses over the course of a few days. Neal described the Black Lives Matter protests last year as "a multi-racial social justice movement, much like the civil rights movement in the 1960s. ", Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "a systemic attack against Kurdish people.". He wasnt there to cause any violence. [2] You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.). Chris Beaty, a 38-year-old former. Two unidentified males died in Philadelphia on the night of June 2; one suspected looter was killed by the owner of a gun shop and the other was killed trying to blow up an ATM on the sidewalk. Indianapolis police have not verified those claims or released any details about the circumstances of the shooting, and no one has been charged, but ACLED categorized the shooting as potentially politically motivated. The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. Protesters have been seriously injured by the use of nonlethal weapons and physical violence while a number of police officers are also recovering from injuries from shootings, stabbings, and objects thrown at them during protests. Counting efforts are still ongoing, so the map is not comprehensive and totals shown are an average of high and low estimates. "What Black Lives Matter was trying to bring to the forefront was the ways in which Black and people of color are always over-policed.". All but one were killed by fellow citizens. But tallies by teams of crowd counters are revealing numbers of extraordinary scale. There was a "stark difference" in the makeup of the Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol riots, according to professor Mark Anthony Neal, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. You may opt-out by. In cities where protests did turn violentthese demonstrations are largely confined to specific blocks, the report says. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to, Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) analyzed more than 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states and Washington D.C. that took place in the wake of George Floyds death between May 26 and August 22. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Non-violent protesters during the summer faced brute force from federal officers, but rioters were met with minimal federal response. Both Reinoehl and Perry have claimed they were acting in self-defense when they opened fire and that they felt their own lives were in danger. Mississippi lawmakers voted to retire their state flag, which prominently includes a Confederate battle emblem. In Kenosha in August, a 17-year-old carrying a rifle he was not old enough to legally possess shot and killed two people, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and seriously injured a third at a volatile late-night protest. Video and photographs of the incident appear to show Keltner slapping a security guard for a local news crew, who responds by pulling out a gun and shooting him. ". The new data highlights the danger of the presence of guns during politically charged protests, and raises concerns about continued violence during and after election day, when many Americans anticipate delays, confusion and protests before the winner of the presidential race is confirmed. 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If we added up all those protests during that period, were talking about hundreds of thousands of people, but not millions, she said. Campbell determined that "census places with Black Lives Matter protests experience a 15% to 20% decrease in police homicides over the ensuing five years." He believes the decrease in deadly force . In the latter case, what happened at the Capitol in January was an attempt to buttress white supremacy.". People killed: In early June, news accounts reported the number of people killed during the Floyd protests at roughly a dozen, or as many as 19. COVID-19 vaccines "provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy.". As the New York Times reported July 3, four recent polls "suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. President-elect Joe Biden won the election by more than 70 electoral votes. We focused on the rest, and found that the biggest problem with the post, leaving aside the numbers claimed, is the lack of proof that Black Lives Matter caused the violence that is claimed. Whether Foster threatened the driver with his gun is still disputed. On 1 June, a day of widespread protests across the country, he was shot to death outside a neighborhood grocery store in Cicero, Illinois, that he was reportedly trying to protect. Comparisons between Black Lives Matter and what happened on Capitol Hill are false equivalencies, said several experts and advocates who spoke with ABC News. While its possible that more people said they protested than actually did, even if only half told the truth, the surveys suggest more than seven million people participated in recent demonstrations. As Democrats railed against the insurrectionists, some Republicans repeatedly drew comparisons between last summer's Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol siege of Jan. 6. The majority of those fatally caught in the crossfire of protests are black males. Heres why: Some Facebook commenters focused on professional sports leagues support of Black Lives Matter when they read this Facebook post: "BLM injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage and gets celebrated by pro sports?". These groups were motivated by a sense of threat, Miller-Idriss said -- a "precarity" or "fear of something being taken away" they believed they deserve is what signaled the attacks on the Capitol, which she said is different from disenfranchisement felt by those supporting Black Lives Matter. . Victor Cazares Jr., 27, Illinois: Cazares was killed by a shot to the head in Cicero in a separate incident on the same day; both deaths have been ruled as homicides. Calvin L. Horton Jr., 43, Minnesota: Horton was fatally shot near the Minneapolis Police Departments Third Precinct two days after Floyds death in what is believed to be the first killing since the protests began. Only a mobile phone was found. Stark differences have been pointed out between the protests for racial justice and the riot stoked by unfounded claims of a stolen presidential election. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital So was Robert Forbes, a black protester from Bakersfield whose sister recalled him demonstrating decades earlier over the brutal police beating of Rodney King. While the group isnt necessarily directing each protest, it provides materials, guidance and a framework for new activists, Professor Woodly said. New York City has agreed to pay more than 300 BLM protesters $21.500 each after they were zip-tied, hit with batons and pepper sprayed. St. Petersburg, FL Damage caused: In late June, Fox News reported that according to insurance experts and city officials, the Floyd protests could eclipse the 1992 Los Angeles riots to become the most expensive civil disturbance in U.S. history. A spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute told Scripps National News that "most likely" the Floyd protest "would lead to higher losses," but did not provide an estimate either. James Scurlock, a Black Lives Matter protester with an infant daughter, was shot to death in Omaha in May after a confrontation with a white bar owner outside the mans bar. In short, there isnt evidence to back the numbers in the claim or to blame Black Lives Matter for each part of the claim. The post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was shot in the head during the same protest, and reportedly remains paralyzed from the injury. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Oh. "I think making a connection that there was actually incitement of violence or that there's any equivalence in the violence itself, is just absurd. By Sanya Mansoor. Bedel Saget and Anjali Singhvi contributed reporting. Even before George Floyd's death in 2020 sparked nationwide protests that enabled the continued mainstream growth of the BLM movement, M.I.A has not shied away from criticizing the movement for not highlighting the plight of people groups persecuted in other countries. The post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Police response to BLM protests. Whats more, news coverage of the protests have also included numerous reports that identify law enforcement officers as causing injury to civilians. Lawyers said that while around 330 people were eligible to receive the payments, as many as 90 have already settled with the city in separate complaints. Half of those who said they protested said that this was their first time getting involved with a form of activism or demonstration. "In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything. The settlement is expected to be finalized in October, according to the Gothamist, with victims likely receiving compensation before the end of the year. The age group with the largest share of protesters was people under 35. Surveillance footage shows Scurlock jumping on Gardner; the Douglas County Attorneys Office determined that Garner acted in self-defense and he will not face charges. 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