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Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests against racialized police violence represents the most prolific mass social movement in modern times. It has been met by sustained and repressive violence by state authorities and right-wing groups. This review seeks to synthesize existing sch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35669314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40719-022-00228-2 |
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description | PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests against racialized police violence represents the most prolific mass social movement in modern times. It has been met by sustained and repressive violence by state authorities and right-wing groups. This review seeks to synthesize existing scholarly, journalistic, case report, and crowd sourced data on violence directed against BLM protestors. RECENT FINDINGS: Data from various sources suggests that police disproportionately target BLM protests for violent intervention. There is also mounting evidence of organized and vigilante right-wing violence targeting BLM protestors. While police frequently use chemical irritants and projectiles, right-wing protestors often use car ramming to bluntly injure protestors. The true scale and nature of injuries affecting BLM protestors remains unknown though injuries resulting in the need for intensive care, operative intervention, permanent morbidity, and mortality have been reported. SUMMARY: State and conservative civilian violence against BLM protestors represents an ongoing threat to the right to organize and publicly dissent. The use of force manifested by police and right-wing groups against BLM protestors resulted in significant injury and mortality. |
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spelling | pubmed-91361982022-06-02 Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review Chaudhary, Mihir J. Richardson, Joseph Curr Trauma Rep Racism, Equity and Disparities in Trauma (S Rogers and TL Zakrison, Section Editors) PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests against racialized police violence represents the most prolific mass social movement in modern times. It has been met by sustained and repressive violence by state authorities and right-wing groups. This review seeks to synthesize existing scholarly, journalistic, case report, and crowd sourced data on violence directed against BLM protestors. RECENT FINDINGS: Data from various sources suggests that police disproportionately target BLM protests for violent intervention. There is also mounting evidence of organized and vigilante right-wing violence targeting BLM protestors. While police frequently use chemical irritants and projectiles, right-wing protestors often use car ramming to bluntly injure protestors. The true scale and nature of injuries affecting BLM protestors remains unknown though injuries resulting in the need for intensive care, operative intervention, permanent morbidity, and mortality have been reported. SUMMARY: State and conservative civilian violence against BLM protestors represents an ongoing threat to the right to organize and publicly dissent. The use of force manifested by police and right-wing groups against BLM protestors resulted in significant injury and mortality. Springer International Publishing 2022-05-27 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9136198/ /pubmed/35669314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40719-022-00228-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Racism, Equity and Disparities in Trauma (S Rogers and TL Zakrison, Section Editors) Chaudhary, Mihir J. Richardson, Joseph Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title | Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title_full | Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title_fullStr | Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title_short | Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protestors: a Review |
title_sort | violence against black lives matter protestors: a review |
topic | Racism, Equity and Disparities in Trauma (S Rogers and TL Zakrison, Section Editors) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35669314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40719-022-00228-2 |
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