The United States is currently experiencing one of the longest continued periods of civil unrest in generations, after demonstrations sparked by George Floyd’s death expanded to protests against Black Americans killed by police and systemic racism in the country.
Retaliation by police against civilians and the press was widely documented in the first wave of protests, but as the protests have continued, so too has the violence.
There has not been a single week without an incidence of police brutality against a civilian or a journalist at a protest in the US since the end of May.
At least 950 instances of police brutality against civilians and journalists during anti-racism protests have occurred in the past five months, according to data collected by Bellingcat and Forensic Architecture and analysed by the Guardian.
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