A night-time police crackdown on tents viralized a small tree protest

Evidence

In the middle of the night on May 29, the government arrived, this time to clear out people instead of trees. As the cops began to tear gas the settlement and torch the tents, Furkan scrambled in panic across the square. Desperate to escape, dozens of people tried to rush down the same small set of stairs at the same time, and they crashed to the ground. The whole thing was filmed on camera phones. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 334

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crackdowns traumatize protesters so deeply that false alarms trigger terror — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 534; Gezi Park protests began as a small environmentalist standoff over tree removal. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 334

Broader Connections

• Crackdowns traumatize protesters so deeply that false alarms trigger terror #exemplifies (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 534