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Grievances related to racial justice, which were a focus of the 2020 protests
The (BLM) movement has been overwhelmingly peaceful in its demonstrations: monitoring groups recorded that roughly 95% of protests during the involved peaceful participants and fewer than 5% involved ...
Public support for surged in 2020, with roughly two-thirds of Americans expressing support at the protests’ peak, but that broad backing has since declined and polarized along racial, partisan and soc...
The available reporting reviewed here does not produce documented, verifiable cases in which paid protesters clearly changed local government decisions; instead the literature distinguishes between th...
Claims that protesters were “paid agitators” became a persistent narrative during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, spreading rapidly online and resurfacing historical tropes about “outside agitat...
The question of how Black Lives Matter protests compare to the January 6 Capitol riot centers on differences of motive, tactics, participant composition, and law-enforcement response; reporting and sc...
Claims that large numbers of were "paid" have circulated since 2020, but systematic fact-checking and academic reporting show little credible evidence that mass payments drove participation in the mov...
The U.S. Capitol was violently breached on January 6, 2021, when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building during the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote . Since ...