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The era of greyhound racing in the U. See how people have imagined life on Mars through history. Expand search Search. Anti-Bias Education. What are protests? Non-violent resistance Non-violent resistance also called civil disobedience is a form of protest. Protests and the First Amendment In the U. History of protests The United States has a long history of protest and activism. Have you seen, read about or participated in any of the recent protests?
What do you think about the protests? Have you ever been to a protest? What was that like? What different thoughts and feelings do people express through protests? What impact do you think the current protests about the police-involved killing of George Floyd and other African American people are having? What changes do you see or hear about taking place? Questions to Dig Deeper What have you heard from friends and seen in the news and on social media about the current protests? How does the media cover protesting?
Why do you think the media chooses certain images or video to show and not others? Have you seen images or video on social media that are not being shown by news media? If you were to organize a protest, what issues matter most to you and what kind of changes would you be looking for through a protest? In what ways do you think protests impact individuals and society as a whole?
Take Action Ask: What can we do to help? What actions might make a difference? George Floyd popped the bubble. It feels like the beginning of the end. Watching a peaceful protest turn into something much less palatable is hard.
There has been a lot of hard the past few days, as people in dozens of cities have released pent-up anger against discriminatory police tactics. Cars and buildings have burned. Store windows have been smashed. Protesters and police have been hurt. When protests take a turn like this we naturally wonder … why? Was this preventable?
Does anyone know how to stop it from happening? Turns out, we do know some of these answers. Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave—and what happens when the two interact. In fact, disproportionate police force is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful.
But if we know that and have known that for decades , why are police still doing it? But what we need to know as professionals is that there are times, if we go one step higher, we are forcing them to go one step higher.
Interactions between police and protesters are, by their very nature, tough to study. Even when researchers get a good vantage point to observe protests in the real world—for example, by embedding within a crowd—the data that comes out is more descriptive and narrative as opposed to quantitative.
Some kinds of protests are highly organized with top-down plans that are months in the making. Others, like many of the events across America this past week, are spontaneous outpourings of grief and anger.
The social and political context of the time and place also affect what happens. Some peaceful. Some not. And different police tactics. All three concluded that when police escalate force—using weapons, tear gas, mass arrests and other tools to make protesters do what the police want—those efforts can often go wrong, creating the very violence that force was meant to prevent. For example, the Kerner Commission, which was formed in to specifically investigate urban riots, found that police action was pivotal in starting half of the 24 riots the commission studied in detail.
Experts say the following decades of research have turned up similar findings. Escalating force by police leads to more violence, not less. It tends to create feedback loops, where protesters escalate against police, police escalate even further, and both sides become increasingly angry and afraid. But there is a general consensus.
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