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There is no single authoritative count of “how many riots” occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency; reporting documents multiple high-profile episodes of civil unrest—Ferguson and Baltimore among th...
There is no single, authoritative count in the available sources of how many “major riots” took place in the U.S. during Barack Obama’s presidency (2009–2017). Contemporary reporting and retrospective...
Fact-checkers treat claims that George Soros funds violent protests as a specific factual assertion that can be tested by tracing grants, spokesperson statements, and reporting on organizational ties;...
Calls to “defund the police” come from a mix of grassroots activists, civil‑rights organizations, some progressive elected officials and policy researchers who argue reallocating portions of policing ...
Claims that George Soros directly finances street-level protests such as Black Lives Matter or antifa are undermined by multiple fact‑checks and investigations showing no evidence he or his Open Socie...
The word “woke” originated as African American English meaning alertness to racial injustice in the early- to mid-20th century and re-entered broad U.S. public usage in the 2010s, especially after 201...
The shorthand claim that Michael Brown raised his hands and said “don’t shoot” — the origin of the “Hands up, don’t shoot” slogan — was not corroborated by the federal investigation and was labeled a ...
The Obama years saw several high-profile protests that escalated into episodes of violent unrest—most prominently Ferguson and Baltimore —each ignited by controversial police killings of young Black m...
Reported totals for the property damage from the Michael Brown–era unrest in Ferguson vary because different outlets measured different things: appraised value of destroyed buildings was reported at r...
Black Lives Matter coalesced from a specific legal verdict and a lineage of police killings and organizing: the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin sparked a viral has...
Prosecutors charged roughly 1,500–1,575 people in the January 6 Capitol cases, with convictions or guilty pleas obtained in the majority of those prosecutions (about 80% convicted by Jan. 20, 2025, an...
The U.S. justice system uses a mix of federal enforcement, civil litigation, consent decrees, data collection, local oversight, and criminal statutes to respond to allegations of systemic racism in po...
The three supplied analyses do not provide direct information on how the Black Lives Matter movement addressed the Michael Brown case or its legacy; each analysis explicitly indicates absence of relev...