The data was collected as a part of a larger survey conducted June , This way nearly all U. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. In turn, those ages 50 and older are underrepresented among the protesters, while those ages 30 to 49 represent a similar share of those who have attended a protest as they do of the adult population overall.
As is the case among the overall adult population, men and women each make up about half of those who say they attended a protest focused on race in the last month. Note: Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings.
The catalysts for the riot and the demonstrations for racial justice were also fundamentally different. In some cities, protests descended into chaos after dark , with people smashing windows, looting stores, setting fires and assaulting officers. William Barr, who as attorney general led the Justice Department last year under Trump, pushed federal prosecutors to aggressively go after protesters who caused violence. Defense lawyers complained that many of the cases belonged in state court — punishments are typically lighter there — and accused Justice Department officials of carrying out a politically motivated effort to stymie the demonstrations.
Prosecutors pushed for the maximum punishment of five years in prison and the maximum restitution amount for Betts, who had no criminal history, she said. In another case this month, an Illinois man was sentenced to nearly nine years behind bars for lighting a Minneapolis cellphone store on fire in June A Charleston, South Carolina, man who livestreamed himself looting a store downtown was sentenced to two years in prison.
In the Capitol riot, dozens of defendants have been charged only with misdemeanors, and a standard plea deal has allowed many to plead guilty to a single count of demonstrating in the Capitol. Two other people who were locked up pretrial were released after pleading guilty to misdemeanors and serving the maximum six-month jail sentence.
Only one defendant convicted of a felony has received his punishment so far. Paul Hodgkins, who breached the U. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag, was ordered to serve eight months behind bars. Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of All Rights Reserved.
Today, the organizers of protests against police violence seek an end to the systemic injustice of racial disparities in policing and punishment. Police misconduct and abuse of power have long been tolerated by police departments, prosecutors, juries and large swaths of the citizenry. That very example of taking a knee, emulating the iconic gesture of dissent associated with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, suggests that protesters and organizers enact a dialogue between past and present, drawing on recent experiences and past movements in shaping the terms and tactics of struggle.
Civil rights activists of the s challenged whites to see the hidden realities and injuries of racism. The encounter made the historical abstraction of years of racial oppression unbearably real to many people around the world. If you look steadily into that unblinking blue, into that pinpoint at the center of the eye, you discover a bottomless cruelty, a viciousness cold and icy.
Our perception of the effectiveness of protests cannot be separated from the anti-black violence that causes them. In this sense, the protest movement becomes more than simply a demand for change, for policies seeking reforms.
The protest becomes an appeal to the conscience of indifferent, if not hostile, whites. During the s, the mainstream media was an ambiguous ally of the civil rights movement, broadcasting searing images of heavy-handed police tactics in Birmingham and Selma, while at other times vilifying King for his anti-war stance and sensationalizing the views of Malcolm X, a prominent critic of police brutality.
The movement also reminded the public that in addition to black men whose deaths sparked protests, black women and black transgender people were among those victimized by racist violence. The problem of police brutality against black people has existed for decades, mostly in the shadows.
The rise of social media, and the Black Lives Matter movement, raised the consciousness of a substantial segment of the public about systemic abuses of power by law enforcement, white privilege, and the racist scripts broadcast in the media that seek to legitimize police and vigilante violence by criminalizing black victims.
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