Police violence, not ideology, converted skeptics into Euromaidan protesters.

Evidence

But then, on November 30, the police cracked down. Images spread through the country of special forces attacking students right in the middle of the capital. Later that day, people began to pour into the square. … This was now about something bigger than that association agreement, Artem decided. It was about rejecting police brutality, and it was about the right to protest. If it was about “Europe,” he reasoned, that was an idea that was bigger (and more open to interpretation) than a single economic deal with Brussels. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 465

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how state violence itself manufactures solidarity and expands protest coalitions into it—a recurring pattern across 2010s protest waves.
• XREF: connects to: Suppressed political alternatives were crushed by violence, not proven unviable — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1109; A single viral image of police brutality converted ordinary citizens into protesters — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 335; Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 368

Broader Connections

• A single viral image of police brutality converted ordinary citizens into protesters #exemplifies (0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 335
• Suppressed political alternatives were crushed by violence, not proven unviable #corroborates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1109
• Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs #qualifies (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 368