Regional Overview: United States
17-23 April 2021
Demonstrations in the United States continued to increase last week, rising by about a quarter compared to the week prior. This upward trend is largely driven by a 77% increase in demonstrations associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement amid a series of high-profile police killings of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) as well as the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.…
Regional Overview: United States
10-16 April 2021
Demonstrations in the United States surged last week, increasing by about 40% compared to the week prior. The increase was primarily driven by demonstrations around the police killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, and secondarily by the release of body camera footage showing the police killing of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino boy.…
Regional Overview: United States
3-9 April 2021
Demonstration events in the United States continued a downward trend for the second consecutive week, dropping by about a quarter relative to the week prior. Last week’s decrease is largely due to a sharp drop in demonstrations in support of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.…
Regional Overview: United States
27 March-2 April 2021
Demonstration events in the United States declined by about a quarter last week — returning to levels consistent with those prior to the recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado.…
Regional Overview: United States
20-26 March 2021
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado, demonstration events in the United States surged last week, continuing an upward trend for the third consecutive week.…
Regional Overview: United States
13-19 March 2021
Last week, demonstration events increased for the second straight week in the United States, rising by about a fifth relative to the week prior. Following mass shootings on 16 March in the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area that targeted Asian women working in spas (New York Times, 17 March 2021), demonstrations against surging anti-Asian hate crimes were held across the country.…
Regional Overview: United States
6-12 March 2021
Demonstration events in the United States increased by approximately a quarter last week relative to the week prior. The increase is largely attributable to a surge in demonstrations associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement around the beginning of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd (CBS News, 10 March 2021).…
Regional Overview: United States
27 February-5 March 2021
Demonstration events in the United States declined by about a quarter last week relative to the week prior. A decline in demonstrations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic drove the decrease, though these events continued to account for the largest share of demonstrations in the country.…
