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Public reporting from ’s two terms documents multiple high‑profile killings by police that sparked large protests in the — notably the deaths of , and — and also records civilian deaths from U.S. dron...
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...
Local investigations into the unrest that followed the police deaths of in and in did not conclude that during the street protests; the major confirmed police deaths were Brown (the initial shooting) ...
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 ...
have been imposed on or negotiated with multiple police agencies in the post‑2014 era — prominent examples include (consent decree filed November 2014), (entered 2016), and cities whose reform process...
The unrest in late May–June 2020 combined an unprecedented national and global scale of mobilization with localized episodes of intense destruction, making it both one of the broadest protest waves in...
From roughly 2009 through 2017, a wave of highly publicized produced both targeted federal probes and a patchwork of reforms: the used its civil‑rights “pattern or practice” authority to open investig...
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...
(2009–2017) were broad, frequent, and ideologically diverse, ranging from large conservative to and linked to . The era saw recurring tensions: mass peaceful mobilizations pressing for policy change a...
presidency were driven less by a single flashpoint than by distinct fault lines: economic policy and the rise of , immigration enforcement and mass deportations, and police violence, and environmental...
-run National Counter-Terrorism Seminars (NCTS) sent senior law‑enforcement officials to observe i security settings — , checkpoints, prisons and border installations — and critics say those site visi...
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...