In Cities and Towns Across the US This Week, the Brutal Police Riot Has Continued
We're witnessing a national police riot that hasn't showed any signs of slowing. The instances of brutal police violence against protesters are so numerous that it's hard to keep track of them all — but here are some of the worst abuses we've seen.

Police confront protesters and members of the media in the rain as demonstrations continue in Manhattan over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on June 3, 2020 in New York City.Spencer Platt / Getty
On Monday, I published an article compiling dozens of instances of police violence against demonstrators protesting police violence.
Major media outlets are not covering the breadth of police violence against protestors. Often they speak in generalities about tensions and clashes before inevitably lapsing into commentary on the occasional looting and arson that has accompanied the civil unrest. That means the most reliable resource for information on what has actually transpired between protestors and police is user-generated video that circulates on social media. The volume of these videos is overwhelming, and there’s no centralized place to find them all.
Consequently, as exhaustive as my list was, I missed some particularly egregious acts of police brutality that occurred last weekend. For example in Austin, a young black man named Justin Howell was filming the protests on his phone when the police struck him in the head with a “less lethal” projectile, fracturing his skull. When fellow protestors picked up his body and began to carry it to safety, the police shot at them too, injuring one of the medics. Howell’s older brother says that he has sustained brain damage. At the same protest, the police hit a teenage boy in the head with a rubber bullet.