For the post to be accurate, every death would need to be a Black person who was directly involved in the protests,or killed at or near aprotest by people who were involved. Danielle Frazier, the then 17-year old who filmed Floyd's arrest and murder on her cellphone, received a Pulitzer special citation recognition in 2021 for her video. Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the Indian Ambassador to the United States, called the vandalism "a crime against humanity". In addition to the people killed while demonstrating, at least 14 more Americans have been killed in other incidents linked to political unrest this summer, including seven people shot during alleged looting of businesses, among them David Dorn, a retired police officer shot during the robbery of a pawn shop in St Louis; two California law enforcement officers murdered by an alleged anti-government Boogaloo extremist, one person found dead in a pawn shop in Minneapolis that had been set on fire; an eight-year-old shot to death in Atlanta; and a Louisville restaurant owner who was shot dead by the national guard. [446] The Minneapolis police department banned police from using chokeholds;[447] Denver's police department also banned the use of chokeholds without exception, and also established new reporting requirements whenever a police officer holds a person at gunpoint. The new data on fatalities and violence at American protests comes from a database created by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED), a non-profit, working in collaboration with a group of researchers at Princeton. [130] The street intersection area had been a "continuous site of protest" since the day Floyd was murdered,[131] and at nearly a year after his murder, thousands of people from multiple countries had visited the active,[132] ongoing[133] protest and memorial site there. The post shows a Feb. 11 tweet fromBryan Dean Wright, an opinion writer and former CIA officer. 11. Some of the biggest protests . Anotherclaim surfaced Feb. 15 on Facebook. During that period, there were 8,700 protests nationwide; 574 were declared riots with violence and other criminal acts. But the post is wrong to say demonstrators faced no consequences. The damages were met with criticism and resulted in curfews across the country. [408] Protesters defaced a statue of Philadelphia abolitionist Matthias Baldwin with the words "murderer" and "colonizer". [390][391] A community organization in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood said that between $10million and $15million in property damage (excluding losses from looting) was incurred over the weekend of May 2931, mostly along storefronts along Peachtree Street and Phipps Plaza. Over 2,000 police officers sustained injuries in the line of duty during the first weeks of demonstrations that began May 26 over the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis Police Department one day prior. In October 2020, researchers writing forThe Washington Post analyzed 7,305 protest eventsand found police made arrests at 5% of them. USA Today, "Fact check: More Black people died in 2019 police shootings than in George Floyd protests," June 18, 2020 YouTube, Scripps National News story , June 12, 2020 Email, Manali Basu . [267] In comparison, roughly three million to five million people came out for the Woman's March of 2017 on a single day. 'The geographic spread of protest is a really important characteristic and helps signal the depth and breadth of a movement's support,' said Kenneth Andrews, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1. [147], Protests outside the Minneapolis area were first reported on May 27 in Memphis and Los Angeles. [215][216], At least 200 cities in the U.S. had imposed curfews by early June, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 96,000 National Guard and State Guard service members. A June 22, 2020,article from The Washington Post tallied over 14,000 arrests made since May 27. 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