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- The public are protesting against the conservative ‘Police Crime Sentencing Courts Bill’. The bill is a clear attack, from the government, on the right to have a freedom of speech, therefore branding protests’ as an ‘inconvenience’ or ‘nuisance’.
- The Bill - Increases the power of police officers to shut down protests which are the epitome of violence and disorder.
- The protest escalated into violence, with riot police, dogs and horses deployed as police station windows were smashed.

The Behaviours’ Of The Crowd

• Police Vans Set Alight
• Police Station Attacked
• Protesters’ Released Fireworks
• Campaigners Protesting - Holding Signs/ Posters
• Vandalism Of Police Vans/ Standings On Police Vans

What Were They Gathering In Relation To?

• The public were gathering to protest against the implementation of ‘The Police Crime Sentencing Courts Bill’.
• Protest against criminal authority (police officers) inserting power over protestors to implement fines or prison sentences. 

Consequences Of The Crowd

• Marvin Rees (Bristol’s Mayor) criticised the violence. Rather than stopping the government plans to increase police powers, the “lawlessness on show” will be “used as evidence and promote the need for the bill”. 

Individual Differences:

• Primary Appraisal - Includes potential for threat or challenge - The peaceful protests escalated into violence, thus challenging police authority. 
• A sense of inadequacy promotes threat appraisal - The misuse/ abuse of police power. The public are protesting this to reach some sort of consensus that the political (police authority) is corrupt.
• Perception of Insufficient Resources - The police struggled to manage the protest - The police were the central source of the immediate protest.

Community Psychology:

• Injustice (Social) - Concerned with power and liberation (the power and extortion/misuse of power by the police). 

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george floyd protest and had loads of people taking advantage of the scene by committing crimes, thus showing individual differences, as not all people who were at that protest was there for the right reasons, they consist of crimes such as looting or vandalism. However it can be related to Community psychoplogy, as it banded people together to work in unison, to a common goal of equality for all

could also say community psych for the police / troops that were there to stop / suppress the protest, as 20,000 troops were deployed over 24 states to simply do their job

]]> 2021-03-22 11:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337247176 https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337257981 this created a group identity against the government which then led the government using violence to control them
 studies on obedience (reicher and Haslam) and conformity(Ashe) could help to explain these sorts of behaviour and the social identity theory ties into all this
both of these sides show crowd behaviour as they are all coming together to win and as violence is a big part of this it makes it more prevalent. 

]]> 2021-03-22 11:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337257981 https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337261916  George floyd protests also started as a smaller community protesting the police and then snowballed to a nation wide movement then to an international movement, so it kind of spread from one community to another in a way. It also show the power of the effect social media can have on a community]]> 2021-03-22 11:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337261916 https://padlet.com/adenovan/sys6f3hdfnwkmy0f/wish/1337267619 In general, a female was killed by a policeman in the evening.
In the PA, in the slide, a sense of inadequacy promotes threat appraisal, people, mostly females, evaluate this event as a high potential threat in the future.
In the SA, so mainly females their evaluation of how to control this high threat is to react by protesting and rioting in order to change the situation on a large scale.
Move on to coping, people tend to use emotion-focused coping, they're fighting the problem and attempting to change their situation. (Also the problem-focused coping is another coping method, and they all point to the ramification) 
So the outcome is already been a 
 protest.

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