List of police violence incidents during George Floyd protests

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list of police violence incidents during George Floyd protests
Part of the George Floyd protests
DateMay 26, 2020 – November 1, 2020
Location
United States
Sporadic protests in other countries

There have been many incidents of police violence during the George Floyd protests, an ongoing series of protests and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing. The protests began on May 26, 2020,[1] following the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white man employed as a Minneapolis police officer, who knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds during an arrest the previous day.[2]

Lawyer T. Greg Doucette and mathematician Jason Miller compiled a list of videos posted on Twitter showing evidence of alleged police brutality, which as of July 26, 2020 contained more than 830 videos.[3][4][5] Investigative journalism website Bellingcat documented over 140 police violence incidents against journalists during the protests.[6] The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker found there were almost as many press freedom violations in one week as for the entire year in 2019.[6]

Definitions[]

Police have standard procedures for ways to manage protests that may employ warranted levels of violence. In contrast, police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement. Brutality is an extreme form of police misconduct or violence and is a civil rights violation. Police brutality can include but is not limited to physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, inaction of police officers, "indiscriminate use of riot control agents at protests", racial abuse, torture, beatings, and in some cases, death.[7][8] Human rights includes right to equal protection under the law and the rights to liberty, security, and freedom from discrimination.[8] This article lists incidents of police violence during George Floyd protests that may or may not have been warranted.

List of incidents[]

Police violence incidents during the George Floyd protests
Date Location Details
May 28, 2020 Denver, CO Peaceful protesters were gassed by police. Elisabeth Epps, a member of the Denver Police use-of-force committee, resigned her post after she was shot by police projectiles.[9]
May 28, 2020 Houston, TX A Houston Police Department officer riding a horse was filmed trampling a woman. Mayor Sylvester Turner apologized for the incident.[10][11]
May 28, 2020 Minneapolis, MN An officer in the tail car of a caravan of squad cars was filmed indiscriminately spraying a chemical agent out the window onto bicyclists and people in a crosswalk.[12]
May 29, 2020 Atlanta, GA An officer was filmed using his bicycle to shove a black woman who was protesting.[13]
May 29, 2020 Denver, CO KMGH-TV news crew reported police targeting them with paintballs and tear gas. Their photographer was shot four times and their camera was destroyed.[14]
May 29, 2020 Las Vegas, NV 80 people were arrested as police clashed with protesters on the Vegas strip.[15]
May 29, 2020 Louisville, KY A Louisville Metro Police Department officer was filmed firing pepper balls directly at a WAVE 3 News crew, hitting correspondent Kaitlin Rust and photojournalist James Dobson.[16][14]
May 29, 2020 Minneapolis, MN CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his three-person news crew were arrested by a group of Minnesota state police officers while reporting live on protests in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[17] According to Jimenez, he was arrested for failing to move back from the position where they were reporting after being ordered to, despite their media credentials being visible and valid, and their agreeing to move where directed.[18][19]
May 29, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Swedish Expressen correspondent Nina Svanberg was shot with a rubber bullet and VG photojournalist Thomas Nilsson had a red laser sight trained on him.[20][21]
May 29, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Journalist and author Linda Tirado was permanently blinded in one eye after police shot her with a non-lethal projectile.[22]
May 29, 2020 New York City, NY New York City Police Department officer Vincent D'Andraia shoved a woman, Dounya Zayer, to the ground at a protest in Brooklyn.[23] The officer was recorded throwing down the protester with both hands while allegedly calling her a "stupid fucking bitch"; the protester was hospitalized after the assault and said she suffered a seizure.[24] On June 9, the officer was charged with assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing.[25]
May 29, 2020 New York City, NY As police cars drove past protesters, an officer opened his passenger door, causing it to hit a protester. The suspected perpetrator received modified duty.[26]
May 29, 2020 New York City, NY Outside Barclays Center, police were filmed repeatedly striking protesters with clubs after they had fallen on the concrete.[27]
May 29, 2020 Omaha, NE A man was shot in the eye with a pepper ball. A different person was shot by pepper balls in the groin, although it is not known exactly what date this occurred.[28][29]
May 29, 2020 Pittsburgh, PA An officer threw a pepper spray container at a man.[30]
May 29, 2020 San Jose, CA San Jose Police Department officer Jared Yuen drew national attention on social media due to videos of his behaviour. Yuen was videoed holding a projectile launcher, telling a protester "Shut up, bitch", then within seconds he leaned around another officer to fire a projectile at close range, which caused a fight. In other videos, Yuen is filmed saying: "Let's get this motherfucker", or seen "smirking, licking his lips and rocking back and forth, looking a little too excited to be facing off with protesters", reported San Jose Inside. The videos were viewed over 10 million times, and thousands called for Yuen's firing. SJPD chief Eddie Garcia reacted that Yuen "let his emotions get the best of him, and it's not right", but he also called Yuen a "kid" and "good cop", "who has put his life on the line for the city multiple times." As a result, Yuen was removed from protest duties.[31][32][33]
May 30, 2020 Atlanta, GA Officers from the Atlanta Police Department pulled two black students from their car, broke a car window, and used tasers to shock them. This came after officers arrested a classmate of theirs whom they wanted to pick up; an officer ordered the students to continue driving, which they complied with. One officer claimed that one of the students possessed a gun, but no gun was found. One of the students stated that he was punched over 10 times in the back after being arrested. Within days, six officers were charged as a result of the incident; two were fired and four were put on administrative leave. The Fulton County District Attorney, Paul Howard, stated that the two college students were "innocent almost to the point of being naive".[34][35][36]
May 30, 2020 Austin, TX 16-year-old Levi Ayala suffered brain damage after being shot in the head with a less-lethal round by Austin police officer Nicholas Gebhart.[37][38][39]
May 30, 2020 Columbus, OH Columbus Police were filmed pepper spraying Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Commissioner Kevin Boyce, and Council President Shannon Hardin during a demonstration near the Ohio Statehouse.[40][41]
May 30, 2020 Columbus, OH 22-year-old Sarah Grossman was pepper-sprayed at a demonstration and later died in the hospital from what was determined to be natural causes.[42] An autopsy determined that Sarah Grossman died of coronary artery dissection due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.[43]
May 30, 2020 Chicago, IL Journalist Jonathan Ballew was broadcasting the protest when he was allegedly assaulted with a chemical agent.[44]
May 30, 2020 Chicago, IL Police attacked actor John Cusack, who was filming the protest.[45]
May 30, 2020 Cleveland, OH A man lost sight in one eye after being hit with a bean bag round.[46]
May 30, 2020 Dallas, TX Journalist Kevin Krause photographed a woman who said she had been walking home with groceries when she was struck in the forehead by a police projectile.[47]
May 30, 2020 Dallas, TX Brandon Saenz, a 26-year-old black man, was at a protest outside City Hall when he was shot in the face with a non-lethal projectile by police. The projectile shattered the victim's left eye.[48]
May 30, 2020 Denver, CO Police shot a protester with a pepperball round, allegedly without provocation, as he filmed them.[49]
May 30, 2020 Denver, CO A non-protester was blinded in one eye after being struck by a police projectile. The victim was walking to his car when he was reportedly shot in the eye, drive-by style, by police.[50]
May 30, 2020 Detroit, MI As a crowd walked away from police, one individual was assaulted by police, physically and verbally. The victim was tackled by a second officer and sprayed by a third.[51]
May 30, 2020 Erie, PA A seated 21-year old protester was filmed being kicked to the ground by an officer.[52]
May 30, 2020 Fort Wayne, IN A protester was shot in one eye and blinded by police.[53]
May 30, 2020 Fort Wayne, IN A three-year-old girl was reported to have been intentionally gassed by police. According to the mother, who was not a protester, the officer "dead-looked at my daughter and threw the canister in front of her and it exploded up into her face."[54]
May 30, 2020 Grand Rapids, MI One officer pepper sprayed a protester and seconds later another fired a tear gas canister into his upper body, hitting him in the shoulder.[55][56][57]
May 30, 2020 Harrisburg, PA As people tried to help a fallen protester, they were pepper-sprayed.[58]
May 30, 2020 Kansas City, MO Several officers pepper sprayed a man who was yelling at them from the side of the street. Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith defended the actions.[59]
May 30, 2020 La Mesa, CA A protestor was shot by police with a "less-lethal" bean bag round between her eyes.[60]
May 30, 2020 Los Angeles, CA Two protesters standing in a deserted street were shot by police rubber bullets.[61]
May 30, 2020 Minneapolis, MN A group of 20 Minneapolis police were filmed marching down a residential street, ordering people on their front porches to go inside. After a few demands, one of the officers shouted "light 'em up!" and marker rounds were shot at them.[62]
May 30, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Police forced a reporter to the ground and pepper-sprayed him.[63]
May 30, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Veteran news photographer Tom Aviles was shot with a rubber-bullet and arrested.[64]
May 30, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Police targeted a CBS news crew and strike a member with non-lethal projectiles.[65]
May 30, 2020 Minneapolis, MN On May 30 and 31, Minnesota law enforcement slashed the tires of unoccupied vehicles parked near protests. Video of the incidents showed indiscriminate slashing of every vehicle in a Kmart parking lot. Several journalists were affected by the event. The Minnesota State Patrol and the Anoka County Sheriff's Department admitted on June 8 to slashing tires. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, which oversees the State Patrol stated that tires were slashed in "a few locations", "in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously". The Department further stated that some targeted vehicles contained potentially harmful items, to which Snopes commented that there appeared to be a logical "disconnect behind the idea of cutting tires when threatening objects were allegedly located inside" the vehicle.[66][67]
May 30, 2020 New York City, NY Two NYPD vehicles were recorded ramming into protesters[68]
May 30, 2020 New York City, NY An officer approached a protester, ripped off the protester's mask, and pepper-sprayed the protester in the face.[23]
May 30, 2020 New York City, NY A medical worker at the Kings County Hospital Center left work and came across officers chasing an individual, and began to record the incident. Officers began to beat the worker for about 90 seconds, causing bruises and a head wound that required seven staples to close.[69]
May 30, 2020 Philadelphia, PA A police officer was filmed repeatedly striking journalist with club.[70]
May 30, 2020 Raleigh, NC Police fired gas and non-lethal projectiles at protesters.[71]
May 30, 2020 Richmond, VA Police sprayed a man through the window of his home as he recorded them.[72]
May 30, 2020 Salt Lake City, UT During a live news broadcast, police were filmed shoving an elderly man, causing him to fall to the pavement.[73]
May 30, 2020 San Antonio, TX A protester filmed as police shot him twice with less-lethal projectiles without physical provocation.[74]
May 30, 2020 San Diego, CA Police shot a 53-year old protester between the eyes with a projectile. The victim was placed in a medically-induced coma and was listed at risk for losing an eye.[75]
May 30, 2020 Seattle, WA A seven-year-old child was maced by police, with the aftermath documented by a viral video. Hours after the protest, Seattle police arrested the person who recorded the video.[76]
May 30, 2020 Seattle, WA An officer placed his knee on the back of the neck of a suspect; after onlookers shouted for him to remove his knee from the man's neck, his partner pulled it off.[77]
May 31, 2020 Austin, TX A pregnant woman was shot by police with projectile.[78]
May 31, 2020 Austin, TX 20-year-old African American Texas State University student Justin Howell was shot in the head with a less lethal bean bag round by an Austin Police Department officer while protesting outside the police headquarters in Austin, Texas. Fellow protesters were instructed by police to carry the injured Howell toward them for medical aid, however, those protesters were then also fired upon by police. Howell was left in critical condition, with a fractured skull and brain damage.[79][80]
May 31, 2020 Boston, MA Boston Police were criticized for use of pepper spray during the protests. In one instance, a man with his hands up was pepper sprayed by several officers.[81]
May 31, 2020 Charleston, SC A kneeling protester was arrested after telling police "I love each and every one of you. I cry at night, because I feel your pain."[82]
May 31, 2020 Chicago, IL Outside Brickyard Mall, police were filmed swarming a car, smashing its windows, and pulling an occupant to the ground. An investigation was opened.[83]
May 31, 2020 Compton, CA A deputy held a man's head down with a knee, while another repeatedly kicked him. Compton city officials called for the deputies involved to be dismissed.[84]
May 31, 2020 Denver, CO When asked "what is going to happen at 8", an officer replied "What's gonna happen is we're gonna start beating the fuck out of you."[85]
May 31, 2020 Eugene, OR A reporter from Eugene Weekly was hit with tear gas and pellets.[86]
May 31, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL A police officer shoved a woman as she knelt. Video shows one of the officer's coworkers, a black woman, yelling at him after the incident. The officer who shoved the protester was identified and suspended pending investigation.[87]
May 31, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL A woman was shot in the face with a rubber bullet. According to police the detective was aiming at a different person when the woman accidentally walked into the line of fire.[88]
May 31, 2020 Indianapolis, IN The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was filmed arresting two women, with a male officer holding one of them. The officer's arm was positioned near her chest. She twisted free and took a few steps, officers fired pepper balls at her feet and struck her with batons. An officer then pressed her to the ground with his hand and a baton resting on her neck. When questioned by another woman, an officer shoved that woman back before she was subdued by police.[89]
May 31, 2020 Jacksonville, FL An officer was filmed punching a protester near a courthouse.[90]
May 31, 2020 Long Beach, CA A journalist was shot in the throat by a police rubber bullet.[91]
May 31, 2020 Los Angeles, CA A US Marine Corp veteran was seriously injured after being shot in head by police with a rubber bullet.[92]
May 31, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Police cruisers were filmed spraying a chemical on crowds of protesters as they drove by.[93]
May 31, 2020 New York City, NY A hospital worker returning home from work was beaten by police.[94]
May 31, 2020 Sacramento, CA A teen was shot in the face with a rubber bullet.[95]
May 31, 2020 San Francisco, CA Video appears to show a sheriff's deputy shove a protester from behind on a sidewalk.[96]
May 31, 2020 Washington, D.C. President Trump went to the historic St. John's Episcopal Church, whose basement had been damaged by fire, and posed for pictures in front of it holding up a Bible. To clear the route so that Trump could walk there, police and national guardsmen used tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash grenades to clear a crowd of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square, resulting in significant news coverage and denunciation by the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.[97][98][99]
June 1, 2020 Asheville, NC Police targeted street medics in the crowd during protests at Pack Place, using rubber bullets and tear gas. At least one street medic and several protesters were injured by pepper balls and rubber bullets.[100]
June 1, 2020 Colorado Springs, CO Police were filmed firing less-lethal rounds at a man and punching him. Colorado Springs Police chief Vince Niski announced an investigation would be conducted.[101]
June 1, 2020 Columbus, OH Journalists were peppersprayed by police.[102]
June 1, 2020 Des Moines, IA A journalist was sprayed by police. Police announced they would conduct an 'internal review'.[103]
June 1, 2020 Des Moines, IA Police gassed and arrested a reporter for Iowa's KCCI.[104]
June 1, 2020 Joliet, IL Mayor Bob O'Dekirk personally scuffled with a protester, aided by police.[105]
June 1, 2020 Louisville, KY Local chef David McAtee was fatally shot by the Kentucky National Guard.[106][107]
June 1, 2020 Philadelphia, PA Protesters were filmed kneeling with hands up as police pulled their mask and goggles off and sprayed them.[108]
June 1, 2020 Philadelphia, PA A Temple University student was released from custody on June 3, after his arrest on June 1, on charges of assaulting an officer. Video showed an officer striking him in the head with a baton and another placing his knee on the back of his neck/head to pin the student's face to the street.[109] The officer who used a baton, Police Staff Inspector Joseph Bologna, was suspended and charged with aggravated assault.[110] Other incidents caught on video involving Bologna regarding the 2020 protests saw him tackling a female protester who had touched his bicycle, lunging at a journalist, and hitting a security guard.[111]
June 1, 2020 Riverside, CA News broadcast footage purported to show police smashing a car window. The sheriff's department claimed windows were not broken.[112]
June 1, 2020 Seattle, WA As she broadcast live on-air, NBC reporter Jo Ling Kent was struck by a flash-bang grenade from police.[113]
June 1, 2020 Syracuse, NY An officer shoved a news photographer from Syracuse.com to the ground.[114]
June 1, 2020 Washington, D.C. An Australian Seven News crew conducting a live broadcast, were battered by police using a riot shield and clubs, while the cameraman was punched in the face. The incident prompted comment from the Australian Prime Minister and Opposition Leader. The reporter later testified in front of US Congress.[115][116]
June 1, 2020 Washington, D.C. Despite clearly showing press credentials, complying with police instructions, and the curfew not yet being in effect: an MPD officer; unprovoked, charged a BBC cameraman with a riot shield, knocking him backwards.[117][118]
June 2, 2020 Asheville, NC Police were filmed destroying medical supplies.[119]
June 2, 2020 Los Angeles, CA A pedestrian was arrested at gunpoint.[120]
June 2, 2020 Los Angeles, CA A wheelchair-bound man was shot in the face with a rubber projectile.[121]
June 2, 2020 Milwaukee, WI During a six-hour peaceful march from Bay View to the District 1 police station, police officers declared an unlawful assembly after empty water bottles were thrown by individual members of the crowd towards the police, and issued a ten-minute dispersal warning before firing tear gas and rubber bullets on the crowd of protesters.[122]

Earlier that same day, a group of protesters led by local organizer Frank Nitty II marched onto the I-794 bypass ramp, and were confronted by law enforcement officers, primarily from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department. The group was ordered to halt and dispersed with deployments of tear gas and rubber bullets; Nitty was singled out from the group, had a firearm pointed in his face, was physically assaulted and dogpiled by officers "leaving him bleeding from his right elbow, hand, and wrist, and left arm". Officers tightly bound his wrists, cutting off circulation to his hands, and he was arrested and held in jail. No charges were brought against Nitty other than a County citation for walking onto the freeway; he pled guilty, paid the citation, and was released, before suing the officers involved in the incident.[123]

A water bottle thrown at police near the District 1 station that afternoon was later pictured and described as a "molotov cocktail" on the Milwaukee Police Department's Twitter profile; this drew widespread rebukes and was ultimately quietly corrected by MPD leadership.[124]

June 2, 2020 Providence, RI An officer fired a non-lethal projectile at a non-protester in a vehicle. The man claims he lost an eye because of the incident. The officer involved was placed on administrative leave.[125]
June 2, 2020 Richmond, VA A group of officers were filmed as one of them appeared to repeatedly spit at a woman in handcuffs.[126]
June 2, 2020 Vallejo, CA 22-year-old Argentine-American Sean Monterrosa was killed at 12:30 AM while kneeling with his hands raised above his waist when he was shot and killed with five bullets by a police officer. Police stated they mistook a hammer in Monterrosa's pocket for a gun. Police were responding to reported looting.[127]
June 3, 2020 Huntsville, AL Tear gas and rubber bullets were used on peaceful protesters.[128]
June 3, 2020 Valdosta, GA A brief scuffle occurred after the Lowndes County sheriff attempted to take a sign from a protester.[129]
June 4, 2020 Buffalo, NY Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man with a cane, was left bleeding from the head after approaching police officers and being shoved to the ground by the police. A video of the encounter shows an officer leaning down to examine him, but another officer then pulls the first officer away. Several other officers are seen walking by the man, motionless on the ground, without checking on him.[130] In February 2021, a grand jury declined to indict the officers.[131]
June 4, 2020 Denver, CO Police shot tear gas at a couple in a vehicle waiting at a traffic stop in Denver. When the man came out of the vehicle to confront the officers because his pregnant wife was in the vehicle, the officers ordered him to move along. He refused and the officers opened fire on him and the vehicle with pepper balls.[132]
June 4, 2020 San Diego, CA After a protest, a woman was forcibly dragged into an unmarked car by unidentified men in civilian clothing. Unwilling to reveal where the woman would be taken, one of the assailants threatened bystanders: "You follow us, you will get shot! Do you understand me?!" The San Diego Police Department later confirmed the individuals were law enforcement officers and claimed the woman had hit police with a protest sign.[133]
June 4, 2020 Portland, OR A freelance reporter was hit with a baton and pepper sprayed.[134]
June 8, 2020 Seattle, WA At the East Precinct, a 26-year-old protester was shot in the chest with a blast ball as she stood 25 feet from the police line. Her heart stopped and street medics raced her unconscious body away on a makeshift stretcher as flash grenades exploded around them. Following chest compressions she was revived then taken to Virginia Mason Hospital. Though she went into cardiac arrest again at the hospital, doctors were able to keep her alive.[135][136]
June 12, 2020 Austin, TX The day after Austin Police Department Chief Brian Manley announced that the department would no longer perform chokeholds or neck restraints, an officer detaining 19-year-old Jarrid Cornell knelt on his neck while he was already pinned to the ground by two other officers.[137]
June 12, 2020 East Meadow, NY As a protester walked surrounded by multiple officers, one of the officers stopped abruptly, causing the protester to bump into them. The swarm of officers then pulled the protester to the ground and placed him under arrest.[138]
June 13, 2020 Richmond, VA A police vehicle hit several protesters near the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue.[139]
June 21, 2020 Columbus, OH A double-amputee was sprayed by police.[140]
July 5, 2020 Milwaukee, WI As a photographer tracking a protest march passed the Old German Beer Hall restaurant, an off-duty police officer and his wife objected to being photographed, threw beer into the crowd, and fought the group of protesters, resulting in property damage, concussions, and charges of battery and misconduct.[141]
July 18, 2020 Portland, OR Federal officers were filmed beating Navy veteran Chris David with batons and spraying him with pepper spray. David says he walked over to the officers to talk to them.[142]
July 28, 2020 New York City, NY Police were filmed taking a protester into an unmarked police van. The protester was later released.[143]
August 12, 2020 Tampa, FL A Black Lives Matter activist was hospitalized after police kneeled on her shoulder.[144]
August 31, 2020 Portland, OR A police officer broke ahead of a police line and tackled a protester who was running away, before repeatedly punching them.[145]
September 23, 2020 Laramie, WY A police sergeant hit a protester with her vehicle.[146]
September 24, 2020 Seattle, WA A police officer was filmed pushing his bicycle over the head of a protester lying on the street.[147]
October 29, 2020 Philadelphia, PA Video footage showed a slow-moving SUV being surrounded by police. Officers with batons surrounded the vehicle, broke its windows, pulled its driver and a passenger, Rickia Young and her teenage nephew, from the car, threw them onto the ground, and then pulled Young's 2-year-old son from the backseat. Young had to be taken to the hospital for injuries sustained in the arrest and was later released without charges. The Fraternal Order of Police posted a photo of a policewoman holding Young's son to Twitter and Facebook, claiming that the child had been found wandering the streets and that they were protecting him. The posts were later deleted.[148] The city settled out of court for $2 million in September 2021.[149]

See also[]

  • 2020 deployment of federal forces in the United States

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