Trump sent troops to Los Angeles after outrage over ICE raids, despite objections by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass — and decades of research.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/09/los-angeles-ice-national-guard-protests
Tag: Riot
Highway Closures & Police Perspective on Riots & Lawlessness
The testimony of the Minneapolis Officers on the riots and lawlessness begins at the 1 hour 18 minute mark.
In the continuing investigation of the rioting and lawlessness following the death of George Floyd, the oversight committee reviews the highway protests and closures and hears from Minneapolis Police and Peace Officers Association.
AP PHOTOS: Looking back at 10 days in 2020 of fervent non-stop protests for George Floyd | AP News
As cellphone video documenting the last breaths of George Floyd spread across the internet, so did the collective outrage.
— Read on apnews.com/article/george-floyd-photo-gallery-dd52c4c5ca834e3e39d53276745082b0
Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Baltimore uprising | AFRO American Newspapers
Baltimore comptroller calls for a shift in priorities, reminding us that a city’s budget reflects its values. Prioritizing police over children is a problem.
— Read on afro.com/baltimore-prioritizes-police-youth/
Understanding street protests: from a mathematical model to protest management | PLOS One
Street protests have been a common feature of human society for many centuries. They often act as a driver of social changes but they may also disrupt everyday life and lead to considerable economic losses. Understanding of factors that may affect the duration of street protests and the number of participants is a problem of pivotal importance. Mathematical modelling is an efficient research approach to study this problem. Here we present a novel modelling framework that takes into account heterogeneity of protesters behaviour and the effect of policing. Using the 2018–2019 Yellow Vest Movement in France as a case study, we show that our model is in a very good agreement with data. We also show that a moderate increase in the efficiency of police actions on particular days may have a significant effect on protest’s intensity and duration. Our findings open a possibility for a more efficient protests management.
— Read on journals.plos.org/plosone/article
NYPD union can’t overturn record police brutality settlement | Courthouse News Service
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals panel on Wednesday affirmed a record settlement resolving a federal class action over so-called “kettling” tactics used by New York City law enforcement to trap civil rights protesters.
A three-judge panel for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a summary order that the Police Benevolent Association, the largest of New York City’s five police unions, failed to demonstrate that it would suffer “legal prejudice” from upholding a lower court’s dismissal of the union’s intervenor claims against the massive settlement agreement and overhaul of NYPD protest policing tactics.
A Manhattan federal district court judge previously rejected the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York’s objections to the settlement as a third-party intervenor, and on appeal, the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court tossing out the union’s safety objections on a motion to dismiss.
— Read on www.courthousenews.com/nypd-union-cant-overturn-record-police-brutality-settlement/
Report: Deploying police was ‘reasonable,’ but UMass Amherst leaders could have chosen other responses | WBUR News
A new report released by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in part questions whether the school could have pursued alternative responses to a heavy police presence during campus protests of the war in Gaza last year.
— Read on www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/17/massachusetts-college-encampment-protest-gaza
Get the report HERE
Police not liable for failure to intervene against counter-protesters
In Balogh v. Virginia, the court held police have no duty to intervene to protect protesters from third-party violence during a rally
— Read on www.police1.com/legal/police-not-liable-for-failure-to-intervene-against-counter-protesters
cjm 87: The August 2011 Riots | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
The themed section featuring a series of articles by contributors who consider the background of, and offer a narrative about, the riots that took place in August 2011.
— Read on www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/edition/cjm-87-august-2011-riots
UCLA Campus Protest – After-Action Report
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