Violent confrontation that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining
Not to be confused with Riot police.
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Helmet and baton used by Chicago police officers during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where the term "police riot" was popularized
A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation. Police riots are often characterized by widespread police brutality, and they may be done for the purpose of political repression.[1][2]
The term "police riot" was popularized after its use in the Walker Report, which investigated the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to describe the "unrestrained and indiscriminate" violence that Chicago Police Department officers "inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat."[3][4][5] During the 2020 George Floyd protests, columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote in The New York Times that a police riot is "an assertion of power and impunity" that "does more to inflame and agitate protesters than it does to calm the situation and bring order to the streets."[6]
^Stark, Rodney (1972). Police Riots; Collective Violence and Law Enforcement. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-534-00145-2 – via Google Books.
^Escobar, Edward J. (March 1993). "The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Movement, 1968-1971". The Journal of American History. 79 (4): 1483–1514. doi:10.2307/2080213. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2080213.
^Summary of the Walker Report, http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_chicago7_doc_13.html
^McDONALD, JOSEPH (1969). "Chicago, 1968: "Rights in Conflict" and rights in conflict". RQ. 9 (2): 124–127. ISSN 0033-7072. JSTOR 25823681.
^Chiasson, Lloyd (1995). The Press in Times of Crisis. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29364-1 – via Google Books.
^"The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It". The New York Times. June 5, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2020.]
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