• June 1, 2020 Richmond, Virginia Police fired tear gas at demonstrators kneeling at the Robert E. Lee Monument 20 minutes before curfew.[234]
• June 1, 2020 Riverside, California News broadcast footage purported to show police smashing a car window. The sheriff’s department claimed windows were not broken.[235]
• June 1, 2020 San Luis Obispo, California Police used tear gas on protesters. A report noted that protesters had only one way to disperse from the standoff, to turn around and go back. One protester stated they were hit in the foot and leg by a canister.[236]
• June 1, 2020 Seattle, Washington As she broadcast live on-air, NBC reporter Jo Ling Kent was struck by a flash-bang grenade from police.[237]
• June 1, 2020 St. Matthews, Kentucky Police pushed and held down a pastor during a march. The pastor was released after officers learned he was a pastor. He later filed a lawsuit against the city and its police department.[238]
• June 1, 2020 Syracuse, New York An officer shoved a news photographer from Syracuse.com to the ground.[239]
• June 1, 2020 Topeka, Kansas Police used tear gas on protesters. Some members of the media were also caught in the tear gas.[240]
• June 1, 2020 Walnut Creek, California Police fired tear gas and sicced police dogs on protesters. One woman was struck in the head by a rubber bullet.[241][242]
• June 1, 2020 Washington, D.C. An Australian Seven News crew conducting a live broadcast, were battered by police using a riot shield and clubs, while the cameraman was punched in the face. The incident prompted comment from the Australian Prime Minister and Opposition Leader. The reporter later testified in front of US Congress.[243][244]
• June 1, 2020 Washington, D.C. Despite clearly showing press credentials, complying with police instructions, and the curfew not yet being in effect: an MPD officer; unprovoked, charged a BBC cameraman with a riot shield, knocking him backwards.[245][246]
• June 1, 2020 Worcester, Massachusetts An officer tackled a protester walking home.[247]
• June 1, 2020 Worcester, Massachusetts Video appears to show a riot officer repeatedly stepping on a woman’s phone as she was arrested. The woman can be heard on video claiming police are punching her boyfriend.[248]
• June 1, 2020 Worcester, Massachusetts Police tackled and arrested a freelance journalist. The journalist was charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and failure to disperse, but the charges were later dropped.[249][250]
• June 2, 2020 Asheville, North Carolina Police were filmed destroying medical supplies.[251]
• June 2, 2020 Brockton, Massachusetts Police pepper sprayed a reporter from The Boston Globe while moving a crowd of protesters back.[252]
• June 2, 2020 Charlotte, North Carolina Protesters claimed police deliberately kettled and tear-gassed them. Multiple lawsuits were filed against the city and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.[253]
• June 2, 2020 Clayton, California Police used tear gas and smoke grenades on protesters.[254]
• June 2, 2020 Colorado Springs, Colorado Police tackled two women and slammed one to the ground. One of the women was later awarded a $175,000 settlement for an excessive force lawsuit.[255]
• June 2, 2020 Colorado Springs, Colorado A woman was pepper sprayed multiple times by police. The woman later filed a lawsuit against Colorado Springs and five police officers.[255]
• June 2, 2020 Los Angeles, California A pedestrian was arrested at gunpoint.[256]
• June 2, 2020 Los Angeles, California A wheelchair-bound man was shot in the face with a rubber projectile.[257]
• June 2, 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin During a six-hour peaceful march from Bay View to the District 1 police station, police officers declared an unlawful assembly after empty water bottles were thrown by individual members of the crowd towards the police, and issued a ten-minute dispersal warning before firing tear gas and rubber bullets on the crowd of protesters.[258]

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]

• June 2, 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Video showed an officer restraining a protester with his knee. The Milwaukee Common Council called for an investigation into the incident.[261]
• June 2, 2020 New York City, New York During a protest in Park Slope an NYPD inspector was filmed stepping on a man’s neck. In 2023 the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined the inspector used excessive force and recommended he be terminated.[262]
• June 2, 2020 Portland, Oregon Police fired at least 138 chemical munitions in an 18 block area, far exceeding federally-recognized safe levels of CS gas concentration. This included three types of tear gas.[263]
• June 2, 2020 Providence, Rhode Island An officer fired a non-lethal projectile at a non-protester in a vehicle. The man claims he lost an eye because of the incident. The officer involved was placed on administrative leave.[264]
• June 2, 2020 Richmond, Virginia A group of officers were filmed as one of them appeared to repeatedly spit at a woman in handcuffs.[265]
• June 2, 2020 San Jose, California A protester filed a lawsuit against the San Jose Police Department claiming an officer tripped him before other officers fired non-lethal projectiles at him.[266]
• June 2, 2020 San Juan, Puerto Rico Police used pepper spray on protesters after curfew.[267]
• June 2, 2020 Vallejo, California 22-year-old Argentine-American Sean Monterrosa was killed at 12:30 AM while kneeling with his hands raised above his waist when he was shot and killed with five bullets by a police officer. Police stated they mistook a hammer in Monterrosa’s pocket for a gun. Police were responding to reported looting.[268]
• June 3, 2020 Huntsville, Alabama Tear gas and rubber bullets were used on peaceful protesters.[269]
• June 3, 2020 Iowa City, Iowa Police used tear gas and flash bangs on protesters. The city council later passed a resolution indicating not to use tear gas and less lethal projectiles on peaceful protesters.[270]
• June 3, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana A woman was struck in the head by a tear gas grenade. The woman later sued the city of New Orleans and its police department.[271]
• June 3, 2020 St. Johnsbury, Vermont A woman fell down the steps in front of the St. Johnsbury Police Department after an officer pushed her out of the way.[272]
• June 3, 2020 Tampa, Florida An officer on a bicycle knocked down and detained a journalist from the Tampa Bay Times. The journalist was released after 10 to 15 minutes. Tampa mayor Jane Castor later issued an apology to the journalist.[273]
• June 3, 2020 Valdosta, Georgia A brief scuffle occurred after the Lowndes County sheriff attempted to take a sign from a protester.[274]
• June 4, 2020 Buffalo, New York Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man with a cane, was left bleeding from the head after approaching police officers and being shoved to the ground by the police. A video of the encounter shows an officer leaning down to examine him, but another officer then pulls the first officer away. Several other officers are seen walking by the man, motionless on the ground, without checking on him.[275] In February 2021, a grand jury declined to indict the officers, and in April 2022 they were cleared of wrongdoing.[276][277]
• June 4, 2020 New York City, New York During a protest in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx, police kettled protesters and beat them with batons. A class-action lawsuit was settled in 2023.[278]
• June 4, 2020 San Diego, California After a protest, a woman was forcibly dragged into an unmarked car by unidentified men in civilian clothing. Unwilling to reveal where the woman would be taken, one of the assailants threatened bystanders: “You follow us, you will get shot! Do you understand me?!” The San Diego Police Department later confirmed the individuals were law enforcement officers and claimed the woman had hit police with a protest sign.[279]
• June 4, 2020 Portland, Oregon A freelance reporter was hit with a baton and pepper sprayed.[280]
• June 5, 2020 Lakewood, California Police used pepper balls on protesters. Police claim that an object was thrown at them, but protesters disputed this.[281]
• June 6, 2020 Sydney, Australia Police pepper sprayed a crowd of protesters at Central Station. Police also grabbed and restrained a man.[282]
• June 8, 2020 Seattle, Washington At the East Precinct, a 26-year-old protester was shot in the chest with a blast ball as she stood 25 feet from the police line. Her heart stopped and street medics raced her unconscious body away on a makeshift stretcher as flash grenades exploded around them. Following chest compressions she was revived then taken to Virginia Mason Hospital. Though she went into cardiac arrest again at the hospital, doctors were able to keep her alive.[283][284]