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- May 30, 2020 Salem, Oregon Police used tear gas on protesters after curfew. Prior to the tear gas a police officer was filmed telling armed members of a right-wing group to leave the sidewalk and go inside so “it doesn’t look like we are playing favorites.”[125]
- May 30, 2020 Salt Lake City, Utah During a live news broadcast, police were filmed shoving an elderly man, causing him to fall to the pavement.[126] The District Attorney decided not to press charges against the officer, saying the man himself did not support criminal charges.[127]
- May 30, 2020 Salt Lake City, Utah An officer was filmed firing a beanbag gun at a man lying on the ground with his hands in the air. A spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Department said the officer was not one of theirs.[128]
- May 30, 2020 San Antonio, Texas A protester filmed as police shot him twice with less-lethal projectiles without physical provocation.[129]
- May 30, 2020 Santa Monica, California A news crew was hit with tear gas.[77]
- May 30, 2020 Seattle, Washington A seven-year-old child was maced by police, with the aftermath documented by a viral video. Hours after the protest, Seattle police arrested the person who recorded the video.[130]
- May 30, 2020 Seattle, Washington An officer placed his knee on the back of the neck of a suspect; after onlookers shouted for him to remove his knee from the man’s neck, his partner pulled it off.[131]
- May 30, 2020 Toledo, Ohio Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.[132]
- May 31, 2020 Austin, Texas A pregnant woman was shot by police with projectile.[133]
- May 31, 2020 Austin, Texas 20-year-old African American Texas State University student Justin Howell was shot in the head with a less lethal bean bag round by an Austin Police Department officer while protesting outside the police headquarters in Austin, Texas. Fellow protesters were instructed by police to carry the injured Howell toward them for medical aid, however, those protesters were then also fired upon by police. Howell was left in critical condition, with a fractured skull and brain damage.[134][135] The officer who shot Howell was later indicted for the shooting.[136]
- May 31, 2020 Austin, Texas A woman was shot with lead pellets. Nine officers were later charged in connection with the incident.[58][136]
- May 31, 2020 Austin, Texas An officer shot a protester with a beanbag projectile as he walked away. The officer was later indicted for the shooting.[136]
- May 31, 2020 Boston, Massachusetts Boston Police were criticized for use of pepper spray during the protests. In one instance, a man with his hands up was pepper sprayed by several officers.[137]
- May 31, 2020 Boston, Massachusetts Multiple people claimed police struck them with batons despite having their hands raised. Four people filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Boston and three Boston Police officers.[138]
- May 31, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina A kneeling protester was arrested after telling police “I love each and every one of you. I cry at night, because I feel your pain.”[139]
- May 31, 2020 Chattanooga, Tennessee Police threw two protesters to the ground and handcuffed them after they pulled on a banner.[140]
- May 31, 2020 Chattanooga, Tennessee Sheriff’s deputies threw tear gas from a courthouse balcony. According to Chattanooga Police, they had not been informed that the Sheriff’s Office would be using tear gas.[140]
- May 31, 2020 Chicago, Illinois Outside Brickyard Mall, police were filmed swarming a car, smashing its windows, and pulling an occupant to the ground. An investigation was opened.[141]
- May 31, 2020 Chicago, Illinois Chicago Police Board President Ghian Foreman claimed that officers struck him multiple times with batons.[142]
- May 31, 2020 Cincinnati, Ohio Police arrested a tattoo artist and pushed him against a window after curfew. The artist was painting a mural on a building with the owner’s permission and was otherwise uninvolved in the protests.[143]
- May 31, 2020 Columbia, South Carolina A protester filed a federal lawsuit after he was hit by tear gas and rubber bullets, the latter of which hit his back.[144]
- May 31, 2020 Compton, California A deputy held a man’s head down with a knee, while another repeatedly kicked him. Compton city officials called for the deputies involved to be dismissed.[145]
- May 31, 2020 Denver, Colorado When asked “what is going to happen at 8”, an officer replied “What’s gonna happen is we’re gonna start beating the fuck out of you.”[146]
- May 31, 2020 Des Moines, Iowa A reporter was shot in the thigh by a rubber bullet.[147]
- May 31, 2020 Detroit, Michigan An officer fired rubber pellets at a group of photojournalists leaving a protest. The officer was charged but charges were later dropped.[148]
- May 31, 2020 El Paso, Texas A woman was hit in the back of the leg by a beanbag round.[149]
- May 31, 2020 Eugene, Oregon A reporter from Eugene Weekly was hit with tear gas and pellets.[150]
- May 31, 2020 Eugene, Oregon Police fired pepper balls at a man near his home after curfew.[151]
- May 31, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, Florida A police officer shoved a woman as she knelt. Video shows one of the officer’s coworkers, a black woman, yelling at him after the incident. The officer who shoved the protester was identified and suspended pending investigation.[152] The officer was later charged with battery but was acquitted.[153]
- May 31, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, Florida A woman was shot in the face with a rubber bullet. According to police the detective was aiming at a different person when the woman accidentally walked into the line of fire.[154]
- May 31, 2020 Fredericksburg, Virginia Police used tear gas about two minutes after an unlawful assembly was declared. An internal review concluded that police actions were justified, but a later independent review determined that police were too quick to deploy tear gas. A group of protesters filed a lawsuit against the city of Fredericksburg.[155]
- May 31, 2020 Hobart, Indiana During a protest near the Southlake Mall, police fired multiple pellets at a man walking to his car, before arresting and siccing a dog on him. Police also used tear gas on protesters.[156]
- May 31, 2020 Huntington Beach, California Police used pepper balls on protesters kneeling and lying on a street.[157]
- May 31, 2020 Indianapolis, Indiana The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was filmed arresting two women, with a male officer holding one of them. The officer’s arm was positioned near her chest. She twisted free and took a few steps, officers fired pepper balls at her feet and struck her with batons. An officer then pressed her to the ground with his hand and a baton resting on her neck. When questioned by another woman, an officer shoved that woman back before she was subdued by police.[158]
- May 31, 2020 Indianapolis, Indiana Peaceful protesters, including a church group, were tear gassed after police attempted to arrest a man vandalizing a statue. Indianapolis’s police chief apologized to the group.[159]
- May 31, 2020 Jacksonville, Florida An officer was filmed punching a protester near a courthouse.[160]
- May 31, 2020 Lafayette, Indiana Police used tear gas on protesters outside the Tippecanoe County Courthouse. According to the Journal & Courier the use of tear gas came without warning, although the sheriff said he gave the order after an explosive was set off near the courthouse.[161]
- May 31, 2020 Lakeland, Florida Police used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters. One man was pepper sprayed seconds after he finished a live interview with a local news station.[162]
- May 31, 2020 Lansing, Michigan Police threw tear gas canisters at a crowd of protesters, including City Councilman Brandon Betz.[163]
- May 31, 2020 Lincoln, Nebraska Multiple people were stuck by non-lethal projectiles. Three people who were hit by projectiles filed lawsuits against the city of Lincoln.[164]
- May 31, 2020 Long Beach, California A journalist was shot in the throat by a police rubber bullet.[165]
- May 31, 2020 Long Beach, California Police fired a projectile at a woman filming, causing her to lose part of her finger. She later filed a lawsuit against the Long Beach Police Department.[166]
- May 31, 2020 Los Angeles, California A US Marine Corp veteran was seriously injured after being shot in head by police with a rubber bullet.[167]
- May 31, 2020 Los Angeles, California A police vehicle struck a protester after a crowd surrounded it.[168]
- May 31, 2020 Louisville, Kentucky An arrested protester claims police pulled him from a vehicle and hit him with batons.[169]
- May 31, 2020 Madison, Wisconsin Police tear gassed and pepper sprayed two reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[170]
- May 31, 2020 Miami, Florida Police grabbed a protester and shoved him to the ground before one put the protester in a chokehold. A report of the incident claims that no force was used.[171]
- May 31, 2020 Miami, Florida Police threw a social media producer for WSVN against a truck and arrested him. Charges against the producer were later dropped.[172]
- May 31, 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota Police cruisers were filmed spraying a chemical on crowds of protesters as they drove by.[173]
- May 31, 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota Poice fired a projectile at a man near a highway on-ramp, striking him and causing him to lose vision in one eye. The man later received a $2.4 million settlement.[174]
- May 31, 2020 Montreal, Canada Police used tear gas on protesters. According to CTV News Montreal is the only major Canadian city to have deployed tear gas on demonstrators.[175]
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Earlier that same day, a group of protesters led by local organizer Frank Nitty II marched onto the I-794 bypass ramp, and were confronted by law enforcement officers, primarily from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. The group was ordered to halt and dispersed with deployments of tear gas and rubber bullets; Nitty was singled out from the group, had a firearm pointed in his face, was physically assaulted and dogpiled by officers “leaving him bleeding from his right elbow, hand, and wrist, and left arm”. Officers tightly bound his wrists, cutting off circulation to his hands, and he was arrested and held in jail. No charges were brought against Nitty other than a County citation for walking onto the freeway; he pled guilty, paid the citation, and was released, before suing the officers involved in the incident.[259]
A water bottle thrown at police near the District 1 station that afternoon was later pictured and described as a “molotov cocktail” on the Milwaukee Police Department’s Twitter profile; this drew widespread rebukes and was ultimately quietly corrected by MPD leadership.[260]
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*June 12, 2020 Austin, Texas The day after Austin Police Department Chief Brian Manley announced that the department would no longer perform chokeholds or neck restraints, an officer detaining 19-year-old Jarrid Cornell knelt on his neck while he was already pinned to the ground by two other officers.[286]
URGH, that was a pain. But please if you find a list of police casualties during these protests/riots I would love to see them since I can not find them. Oh and if you want to say they stopped the riots, the buildings still burned while the police watched.