Latest Civil Unrest Headlines
All the headlines from our Civil Unrest Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Court: Protest Leader Can be Sued For Cop’s Injury
Mar 28 2022 // A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana’s Supreme Court said...
Jury Awards $14M in Damages to Colorado Protesters
Mar 28 2022 // Jurors found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd two years ago, ordering the city to pay a total of $14 million in...
Indiana Man Who Lost Eye During 2020 Protests Reaches Settlement
Mar 25 2022 // An Indiana man who says he lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister police fired during 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has reached a settlement with the city of Fort Wayne. Balin Brake sued the...
Report: Minneapolis Didn’t Follow Protocols in George Floyd Unrest
Mar 21 2022 // A report on how Minneapolis police, fire and other agencies responded to protests that erupted following the killing of George Floyd paints a picture of miscommunication and a lack of planning. The report by the risk...
$2.4 Million to be Paid to Minnesota Man Shot in Eye During Floyd Protests
Mar 18 2022 // A Minneapolis man who lost an eye when he was hit by a projectile fired by police during protests that followed George Floyd’s killing will get a $2.4 million settlement. Soren Stevenson, 27, was in a large group of...
Report: Minneapolis Didn’t Follow Protocols in George Floyd Unrest
Mar 11 2022 // A report on how Minneapolis police, fire and other agencies responded to protests that erupted following the killing of George Floyd paints a picture of miscommunication and a lack of planning. The report by the risk...
Appeals Court Rules Protesters Can Sue Over Vegas Arrests
Mar 10 2022 // A federal appeals court ruled that a Las Vegas police detective can be sued for arresting protesters who chalked anti-police slogans on the sidewalk in front of the police station. Three activists arrested in 2013 broke an...
Tear-Gassed Protesters Settle Lawsuit Against Richmond Police
Mar 1 2022 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were tear-gassed by Richmond police during a protest in June 2020. Six people who were among a crowd protesting at the former Confederate Gen. Robert E....
Canada’s Trucker Protests Cost Businesses Tens of Millions in Lost Sales
Feb 25 2022 // A three-week long protest in Canada against pandemic measures that snarled trade and shuttered Ottawa’s core likely cost billions in trade delays, tens of millions in lost sales for businesses, and left behind a...
Alabama House Approves Anti-Riot Bill Criticized by Blacks
Feb 25 2022 // The Alabama House of Representatives approved legislation Tuesday that would create a new definition of a riot and provide tougher penalties for people who participate in one. Republicans supporting the bill said it is...
Canada’s Crackdown on Trucker-Protest Funding May Be Challenge for Insurers, Banks
Feb 18 2022 // Canada roped in banks to help cut funding to protesters against COVID-19 mandates this week, but the requested speed and broad scope of the measures leaves financial institutions to their own devices in enforcing most of...
Journalists Settle Suit Over Mistreatment Covering Minnesota Protests
Feb 10 2022 // The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who said they were hurt or harassed while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd...
Foxconn India Restarts Production at iPhone Plant After December’s Worker Protests
Jan 13 2022 // CHENNAI – Apple Inc supplier Foxconn restarted production at its plant in southern India on Wednesday, a company official said, over three weeks after it was closed because of protests over workers falling sick. The...
China Evergrande’s Investors Protest, Shouting ‘Return Our Money!’
Jan 4 2022 // GUANGZHOU, China – Investors in financial products issued by China Evergrande Group protested outside the cash-strapped company’s offices in Guangzhou on Tuesday, with many worried that their returns would be...
Indian iPhone Plant Workers Became Ill From Tainted Food. Then a Rare Protest Began.
Jan 3 2022 // SRIPERUMBUDUR, India — For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the...
$100K for Protest Lawsuit Settlement in Oregon Approved
Dec 27 2021 // The City Council in Portland, Oregon, unanimously approved of paying $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against police by a man who said he was pepper sprayed, thrown to the ground and unlawfully arrested during a...
Case Filed by Mother of Washington Man Shot During Protests Dismissed
Nov 3 2021 // A judge has dismissed a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot during last year’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said Donnitta...
Parents of Unrestrained Girl Killed on Ride Sue Colorado Theme Park
Nov 1 2021 // On her family’s first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt and cousins last month. When the floor pulled away,...
Climate Protesters Spill 1,000 Liters of Fake Oil Outside Lloyd’s of London
Oct 29 2021 // Climate protesters spilled a 1,000 liters (220 gallons) of fake oil outside Lloyd’s of London Friday, part of a campaign to draw attention to the finance industry’s financing of fossil fuels. The activists were...
Striking McDonald’s Workers Protest Alleged Workplace Harassment, Violence
Oct 29 2021 // McDonald’s workers in 12 U.S. cities walked off the job Tuesday to protest what they say is an ongoing problem of sexual harassment and violence in the company’s stores. Several hundred workers were expected to...
