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GoFundMe has not uniformly removed the high-profile fundraiser supporting ICE agent Jonathan Ross; the platform publicly stated it was reviewing the campaign and warned that fundraisers raising money ...
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...
GoFundMe’s explicit public policy bars fundraisers "for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime," a rule the company has repeatedly invoked to remove campaigns and refund donors; the platform al...
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...
GoFundMe’s rise as the dominant personal crowdfunding platform has repeatedly collided with courts, regulators and public outrage over which fundraisers the company allows, removes or refunds—producin...
Between 2009 and 2017, several U.S. protests escalated into riots or violent unrest tied most often to police killings or controversial right-wing/white-supremacist mobilizations: the 2009 Oakland unr...
Between 2009 and 2017 multiple large protests escalated into riots in cities worldwide and in the United States; notable examples include the July 2009 Ürümqi unrest in China where an initially peacef...
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...