But, lest we misunderstand the last two weeks as a fundamental shift in policing practices against protesters, we need only look to the recent disproportionate reaction to protests in Baton Rouge (before three BRPD officers were killed).
- Obama condemns Iran's reaction to protests against the disputed election there.
A17 Bills Seek to Limit Protests Nine states have approved laws that restrict demonstrations at a funeral or burial, while 23 state legislatures are getting ready to vote on similar bills, in reaction to protests at funerals for American soldiers.
Kip Holden, the mayor of East Baton Rouge Parish, alluded to criticism of Obama's reaction to protests over police shootings when he said "This is a sad day in Baton Rouge" and added that people should "let peace prevail".
Much of the criticism is directed at the American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, who offered the most detailed preliminary assessment of the attack, describing it a few days later as a "spontaneous reaction" to protests in Cairo that erupted after the circulation of an anti-Islam video on YouTube.
The assault had earlier been thought to have been a spontaneous reaction to protests over an anti-Islamic film.
Last week, I watched oil rally $4 dollars in a day on the reaction to protests in Egypt, a relative non-participant in global oil.
Amid the purges, violent reaction to protests, and crackdown on free speech access to Wikipedia was blocked over the weekend Erdoğan has denied that claim.
"The law was a reaction to protests around Hanalí Huaycho, a journalist murdered by her policeman husband, something that happens every day," she says.
The same day, other opposition parties protested what they called the government's "excessive" reaction to protests, and the Progressive Democratic Tribune called for formation of a national body to unite Shia and Sunna like the National Union Committee had done in the 1950s.
