Turns out, we do know some of these answers. When protests take a turn like this we naturally wonder … why? Was this preventable? Does anyone know how to stop it from happening? There has been a lot of hard the past few days, as people in dozens of cities have released pent-up anger against discriminatory police tactics. Watching a peaceful protest turn into something much less palatable is hard. It feels like the beginning of the end.” The end of what? “What we’ve been going through,” he said, referring to heavy-handed and often deadly policing of African Americans. With no police presence to be seen, he and other protesters were celebrating a victory. On Thursday night, he returned to the same spot to watch the precinct burn.
Harris said he had used his backpack as a shield and maneuvered close enough to take the baton of the officer who shot him. This article was published in partnership with FiveThirtyEight.
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