Police 3X More Likely To Use Violence Against Liberal Protesters Than Far-Right

[packman]

New statistics from the U.S. Crisis Monitor and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) show that police used violence against leftwing protesters three times as often as against rightwing demonstrators

Black Lives Matter, Indigenous, anti-war, and other progressive activists reacted with a complete lack of surprise to data reported by The Guardian on Thursday that shows U.S. police are three times more likely to use violence against left-wing and social justice protesters than against those on the political right.

The report, based on statistics from from the U.S. Crisis Monitor—a database created this spring by researchers at Princeton and the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED)—found that the overwhelming majority of the thousands of total protests across the nation over the past year have been peaceful.

While most demonstrations in general were not attacked by police, officers used tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings with batons, and other violence against protesters at 511 left-wing events as opposed to just 33 right-wing ones since April 2020, according to ACLED data.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/report-police-3x-more-likely-use-violence

[kristofarian]

1. Nothing Can Be More Dangerous

to our Most Expensive Military
(making the Planet SAFE
for Capitalism!) than
Peace.

it's gotta GO
even if we gotta
bust alotta Liberal heads.

so don't take it Personal, folks
it's Just. Business. as per usual.

[Catcar]

2. I would like to compare the Trump era stats to the previous stats.

I suspect the differential would be stunning.

[llashram]

3. no shit!!??

I'm shocked...not