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Analyzing 7,000 protests, finds that police are more likely to intervene at anti-police protests than at similar protests with other themes.
[deleted tweet: ] Think cops are being more violent in part because these protests are ABOUT THEM? You’re right. Analyzing 1000’s of protests from 1960-95, I find police are more likely to show up, arrest, and use force at police brutality protests than other protests. Link below #BLM #soctwitter — Heidi Reynolds-Stenson (@prof_heidi) June 5, 2020
Protesting the Police: Anti-Police Brutality Claims as a Predictor of Police Repression of Protest
Social Movement Studies
Vol. 17 Issue 1, pp. 48–63,
2018
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