The vast majority of demonstrations were peaceful and leading BLM activists repeatedly distanced themselves from agent provocateurs and instigators. In total, the city could spend between $4million to $6million on the settlement. 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. In short, there isnt evidence to back the numbers in the claim or to blame Black Lives Matter for each part of the claim. While they walked away from that confrontation, the fiance said, someone opened fire later and the 24-year-old mother was killed. Professor Woodly said that the civil rights marches in the 1960s were considerably smaller in number. As for the numbers claimed in the post, the U.S. Justice Department told us it does not have figures on officer injuries or property damage resulting from civil disturbances, and the FBI said it had no comment. The numbers claimed The latest flareup of protests against police brutality began May 26 in Minneapolis, where the previous day, George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer. "Donald Trump asserts his role as the leader of the right-wing militias," said Rosenthal. Italia Kelly, 22, Iowa: Kelly was shot and killed around midnight on May 31 while leaving a protest outside a Walmart in Davenport, Iowa. On June 6, for example, at least 50,000 people turned out in Philadelphia, 20,000 in Chicagos Union Park and up to 10,000 on the Golden Gate Bridge, according to estimates by Edwin Chow, an associate professor at Texas State University, and researchers at the Crowd Counting Consortium. Unlike with past Black Lives Matter protests, nearly 95 percent of counties that had a protest recently are majority white, and nearly three-quarters of the counties are more than 75 percent white. In the past, the president has denied accusations of racism. Before he was shot, several protesters told Gomez they disapproved of him being armed, and even a journalist questioned him about why he was holding his gun in his hand with his finger on the trigger, the Las Vegas Sun reported. Write to Sanya Mansoor at sanya.mansoor@time.com. "Like nothing was going to happen to them.". Many of the protesters in the park were armed and on edge, and returned fire when Lopez started shooting, local news outlets reported. The plaintiffs also raised state-law claims for false arrest; assault and battery; denial of medical care; infliction of emotional distress; negligent hiring, training and supervision; and excessive detention. Humans could have wings, tentacles or an extra ARM 'in the next few decades' thanks to leaps in human DIY fruit and veg! Figures show stark differences between arrests at Black Lives Matter protests and Capitol Hill in [+] D.C. Just 52 people were arrested in Washington D.C. Wednesday after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted Congress certifying President-elect Joe Bidens win. 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. In Minneapolis, the City Council pledged to dismantle its police department. Non-violent protesters during the summer faced brute force from federal officers, but rioters were met with minimal federal response. Police response to BLM protests. Most of the protesters killed this year were shot to death, and many of the incidents involved confrontations at protests that escalated and turned deadly when at least one of the people involved had a gun. As we reported two weeks after the protests began, a review of demonstrations in five major cities found that all of the protests started with violence, but then became largely peaceful. President Donald Trump and high-ranking members of his administration have frequently generalized protesters as violent anarchists. Mississippi lawmakers voted to retire their state flag, which prominently includes a Confederate battle emblem. Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was shot in the head during the same protest, and reportedly remains paralyzed from the injury. 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All rights reserved. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Federal authorities launched an active investigation into the attack on the Capitol and there are over 275 open investigations, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin told reporters on a conference call Friday. 1800 I Street NW 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. Washington, DC Over the summer, he called the Black Lives Matters protesters "thugs" and "terrorists." In 2020, law enforcement agencies made more than 14,000 protest-related arrests, often detaining people who engaged in civil disobedience, as well as acts of violence. That came in response to looting and riots that swept New York in the wake of Floyd's killing by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Photo of electric charging station powered by diesel generator is emblematic of the electric vehicle movement. Marvin Francois, 50, Missouri: Francois was fatally shot after a protest in Kansas City on May 31, with police reporting his killers were three men attempting to steal his car. Half of those who said they protested said that this was their first time getting involved with a form of activism or demonstration. Chris Beaty, 38, Indiana: Just a few feet from his apartment, the former Indiana University football player and local business owner was killed on May 30 amid unrest in Indianapolis. Whats more, news coverage of the protests have also included numerous reports that identify law enforcement officers as causing injury to civilians. An amalgam of estimates from organizers, the police and local news reports often make up the official total. Black Lives Matter protests attract not only BLM members but supporters and opponents, making it difficult to assign blame to BLM for particular incidents. The comments section is closed. 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. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.). Without gainsaying the reality and significance of generalized white support for the movement in the early 1960s, the number of whites who were active in a sustained way in the struggle were comparatively few, and certainly nothing like the percentages we have seen taking part in recent weeks, said Douglas McAdam, an emeritus professor at Stanford University who studies social movements. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today. ", People not vaccinated against COVID-19 came out the best. Even protests to unseat government leadership or for independence typically succeed when they involve 3.5 percent of the population at their peak, according to a review of international protests by Erica Chenoweth, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School who co-directs the Crowd Counting Consortium, which collects data on crowd sizes of political protests. Turnout has ranged from dozens to tens of thousands in about 2,500 small towns and large cities. 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. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? The post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. What If They Were Black?: Commentators, Twitter Users Denounce Double Standard As Cops Take Selfies With Capitol Protesters (Forbes), Four Dead, 52 Arrested Amid Pro-Trump Capitol Riots (Forbes), 'Double standard': Black lawmakers and activists decry police response to attack on US Capitol (USA Today), This is a BETA experience. The Womens March of 2017 had a turnout of about three million to five million people on a single day, but that was a highly organized event. Neil said it's important to make the distinction between the Black Lives Matter movement and the Capitol siege. We found no evidence that the toll from protests against police brutality is as high as the numbers in the post. The other includes white nationalists, those he said are "electrified and mobilize[d] going on the streets to stand up to Black Lives Matter and the fantasy of Antifa". 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. Oscar Cainer tells all. 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. Says he has been to Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas twice as president. The adversarial stance that the Trump administration has taken on issues like guns, climate change and immigration has led to more protests than under any other presidency since the Cold War. Still, many people continue to believe that Black Lives Matter protests are largely violentcontrary to the reports findings. We appear to be experiencing a social change tipping point that is as rare in society as it is potentially consequential.. victims of police killings on a downtown street as demonstrations continue over his killing despite the dangers of the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on June 8, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. 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. "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.". The NYPD has admitted flouting its own rules on how to handle protesters, Protesters took to the streets in the Bronx on June 4, 2020, to protest the police-involved killing of George Floyd, Members of the NYPD are pictured preparing for the protesters as they made their way down 136th Street. Fires burn around downtown during a second night of protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc., Aug 24, 2020. John Tiggs, 32, Illinois: Tiggs was fatally struck in the abdomen by shots fired inside a Metro PCS during lootings in the South Side of Chicago on May 31. 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. These tactics, the lawsuit argued, were approved directly by city leaders like then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Police Chief Terence Monahan who spoke out openly against the protests that caused widespread looting and destruction of property. 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. ACLEDs dataset only focuses on political violence. The Association detailed the unrest and compiled data from protests between May 25 and July 31 in MCCA member cities, Fox News reports. "If we fail to remove a White supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it's communities like Missouri's first district that suffer the most," said Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri during her speech in support of impeachment. Others may have decided to file separate claims against he city, especially those who reported more severe injuries. 970+ [1] Starting in May 2020, demonstrations over the police murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. 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.. O'Reilly said the chant meant "dead police officers". 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.'. Black Lives Matter protesters march through Manhattan on August 24 following the shooting of a Black man by a White police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Black Lives Matter has been around since 2013, but theres been a big shift in public opinion about the movement as well as broader support for recent protests. In her speech during the hearing, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., condemned the president for "radicalizing his supporters" and "inciting them to willingly join with White supremacists, Neo-Nazis and para-military extremists in a siege of the United States Capitol building. If a judge approves the settlement filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, the New York Times reports, it would be one of the highest ever awarded per person in a class action case for mass arrests. 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?". Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.comon August 7, 2020, Facebook posts: Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage.". Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, California: Underwood was shot May 30 while on guard duty outside a federal courthouse in Oakland and was one of two officers targeted in a drive-by shooting amid nearby protests. In New York, lawmakers repealed a law that kept police disciplinary records secret. While a Chicago resident was quickly charged in the shooting death of another man, Jose Gutierrez, that same day in Cicero, the Cicero police department did not respond to requests for comment about whether anyone had yet been charged in Cazaress death. Between May 30 and June 2 2020, the height of the racial justice protests, 427 "unrest-related" arrests were made in D.C., including 24 juveniles, the police department says. But Perry has not yet faced any criminal charges, and a local prosecutor in Texas said the incident was still under investigation. Candles and flowers form a tribute to Summer Taylor and Diaz Love during a rally near the King county courthouse on 22 July 2020 in Seattle. The protests, colloquially known as the "Freedom Convoy," began in late January after the Canadian government started requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for drivers crossing the U.S. border.. PolitiFact Texasis a partnership of the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News to help you find the truth in Texas politics. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. ", U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is "facing 40 years in prison and deportation after seven new crimes uncovered. 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. Published: 18:37 GMT, 1 March 2023 | Updated: 20:04 GMT, 1 March 2023. 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