- Who Supports, Who Opposes
- The Public Consensus
- Small Towns Respond
- Inside the Police Culture
- Residents Give Protesters Shelter
- The Armor of God
- Reporters Targeted By Police
- “Playing Favorites”
- The White House Wall
- NFL's New Tune
June 4, 2020
TRT World
Much of the Democratic Party’s establishment, some Republicans, mainstream American media and some powerful US brands like Netflix, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have publicly expressed support for the largely peaceful protests.
By Geoffrey Skelley
June 5, 2020
FiveThirtyEight
An overwhelming majority of Americans say Floyd’s death was wrong and the police officers involved should be held accountable. Americans had mixed views on what has happened during the protests.
Small Towns Respond
By Lara Putnam, Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman
June 6, 2020
Washington Post
By Anne Helen Petersen
June 3, 2020
Buzzfeed News
By Tom Nolan
June 2, 2020
The Conversation
The police have deployed a militarized response to what they accurately or inaccurately believe to be a threat to public order, private property, and their own safety.
Residents Give Protesters Shelter
By Eoin Higgins
June 2, 2020
Common Dreams
City residents in Washington, D.C. opened their doors to protesters—mostly teenagers—fleeing police, keeping the demonstrators safe until curfew lifted.
By Matthew Teague
June 3, 2020
The Guardian
People once concerned with piety now crave “an exercise in pure political power”, and the Bible is no longer a spiritual weapon but an earthly one.
By David Smith
June 8, 2020
The Guardian
Many campaigners find the situation impossible to divorce from Trump’s sustained contempt for the media.
By David Mack
June 5, 2020
Buzzfeed News
A viral video showed an officer telling a group of armed white men protecting a store to avoid being arrested for violating a curfew so officers "don't look like [they're] playing favorites." The video has prompted a public apology from the chief of police in Salem, Oregon.
By Kelsey Proud, Julie Strupp, Jenny Gathright, and Nathan Diller
June 7, 2020
DCist
While the closest the public can get to the White House is about 600 feet away, the fence around the people’s house is again being reclaimed by the people. The line between protest sign and art is up to the beholder, but plenty of both now adorn the fence’s exterior face.
By Joel Anderson
June 7, 2020
Slate
The new stance comes from the very same place as the league’s previous prohibition of peaceful protests during the anthem: a morally bankrupt commitment to shifting with the winds of what its white fans find acceptable.
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