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One needs to study and understand American demographics to answer this question. The simple answer to the first part is absolutely yes. Railroads played a major roll in western US settlement. Without the four great 19th century railroads, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific across Missouri from St. Louis, through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and to San Francisco, California; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, extending from Chicago to Los Angeles through the Southwest; and the Great Northern Railway from Chicago to Seattle, the American West might not have been settled for another hundred years.Now, as for why the majority of the US population remains coast-bound, that requires a complicated response.The population of what was once called ‘The Great American Desert’ was, and remains, under-populated because the land cannot support large a population. Importantly, it lacks water. The railroads were given huge tracts of land in return for their private outlay of construction money. Some of the land was used to plat towns and some, in fact most, was eventually sold. The federal government used various legislative acts, perhaps most famously, the Homestead Act, to encourage Western settlement, and these efforts were effective. The Frontier was declared ended by the mid-1890s.After the mid1870's however, railroads and their corporate owners (Robber Barons) nearly wrecked Midwestern agricultural through transportation price-fixing during a period called The Long Depression, c. 1876 to 1898. The trust busting efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as WWI, stablized farm prices and with the, for a time,, Midwestern population. Times were great for Midwestern farmers until they were hit with a double whammy.First came drought in the mid-1920s. Drought conditions exposed poor farming practices that resulted in severe wind erosion that created the Dust Bowl. Drought drove many farmers to California, Oregon, and Washington. Farmers surviving drought were subsequently wrecked financially by The Great Depression of 1929 to 1941. Farms were simply abandoned and people left for the coasts and cities like Chicago.After 1925, midwestern rural population rapidly decreased, and quite frankly, it has never recovered. The population of California rose after 1930 and it grew slowly until World War II. During the war, Midwestern agriculture once again stabilized and after becoming highly mechanized requiring fewer people to produce the same or greater crop yields, farming become about as lucrative as it's ever been. Always a difficult lifestyle choice, today the small family farm, still present in modest numbers, is an anachronism. Coastal populations keep growing because these regions offer regular, steady, employment. Today, populations in the plains states continue to shrink. My modestly populated California county possesses a greater population then North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. The Los Angeles Metro Area has a larger population then the entire Midwest from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to Texas. This demographic reality is unlikely to ever change, at least not in my lifetime, or that of my children and grandchildren. Please note that this answer is a simplified statement of much more complex history.

The far left is so full of hate they’re not thinking correctly or being honest with themselves. They’re condoning riots in the streets by ANTIFA a known terrorist group, and by BLM when in fact ALL LIVES MATTER. Anything our President does they will riot and protest without even considering the facts. Liberals think with their heart, not with their brain.The far right are not much better at civil discussions. The whole country is in turmoil because of politics, there’s too much unwarranted hatred of President Trump for the left to think straight and the right are sick and tired of the lefts childish behavior.But just so nobody thinks this is something new or somehow worse than anything we’ve gone through as a nation, I have listed some other times of political unrest in the U.S that I got off the internet.1783 – Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, June 20, Anti-government protest by soldiers of the Continental Army against the Congress of the Confederation, Mayhue, Pennsylvania1786 – Shays' Rebellion, August 29, 1786 – February 3, 1787, Western Massachusetts1788 – Doctors Mob Riot, New York City1791–1794 – Whiskey Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania (anti-excise tax on whiskey)1799 – Fries Rebellion,1799–1800, Tax revolt by Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. Pennsylvania19th centuryEdit1800–1849Edit1829 – Cincinnati riots of 1829, August 15–22, Cincinnati, Ohio1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion, August 21–23, Southampton County, Virginia1834 – Anti-abolitionist riot, New York City1835 – Baltimore bank riot, August 6–91835 – Gentleman's Riot, Boston, Massachusetts1835 – Snow Riot, Washington D.C.1835–1836 – Toledo War, a boundary dispute between states of Michigan and Ohio1836 – Cincinnati Riots of 1836, Cincinnati, Ohio1837 – Flour Riots, New York City1839 – Honey War, Iowa-Missouri border1839 – Anti-Rent War, Hudson Valley, New York1841 – Dorr Rebellion, Rhode Island1842 – Lombard Street Riot, (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), Aug. 1, Philadelphia1842 – Muncy Abolition riot of 18421844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots, May 6–8, July 6–7, Philadelphia (anti-Catholic)1849 – Astor Place riot, May 10, New York City, (anti-British)1850–1859Edit1851 – San Francisco Vigilance Movement, San Francisco, California1853 – Cincinnati Riot of 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio1855 – Cincinnati riots of 18551855 – Lager Beer Riot, April 21, Chicago, Illinois1855 – Portland Rum Riot, June 2, Portland, Maine1855 – Bloody Monday, Know-Nothing Party riot, August 6, Louisville, Kentucky (anti-immigration)1855 – Detroit brothel riots, 1855-1859, Detroit, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' "The Detroit Almanac", 2001.}1856 – Pottawatomie massacre, May 24, Franklin County, Kansas1856 – Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, Baltimore, Maryland1856 – San Francisco Vigilance Movement, San Francisco, California1857 – Know-Nothing Riot, June 1, Washington D.C. (anti-immigration)1857 – New York City Police Riot, June 16, New York City1857 – Dead Rabbits Riot, July 4–5, New York City1858 – San Luis Obispo Vigilance Committee, San Luis Obispo, California1858 – Know-Nothing Riot 1858, New Orleans, Louisiana1859 – John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, October 16, Harpers Ferry, Virginia1860–1869Edit1861 – Baltimore Riot of 1861, April 19, (a.k.a. the Pratt Street Riot), Baltimore, Maryland1861 – Camp Jackson Affair, May 10, Union forces clash with Confederate sympathizers on the streets of St. Louis, 28 dead, 100 injured., St. Louis, Missouri1862 – Buffalo riot of 1862, August 12, Buffalo, New York1863 – Detroit race riot of 1863, March 61863 – Southern bread riots, April 2, Riots which broke out in the South during the Civil War due to food shortages throughout the Confederate States of America1863 – Battle of Fort Fizzle, June, also known as the Holmes County Draft Riots, active resistance to the draft during the Civil War, Holmes County, Ohio1863 – New York City draft riots, July 13–16, (anti-draft)1864 – Charleston Riot, March 28, Charleston, Illinois1866 – Memphis Riots of 1866, May 1–3, Race riot that broke out during Reconstruction, Memphis, Tennessee1866 – New Orleans riot, July 30, New Orleans, Louisiana1868 – Pulaski Riot, Pulaski, Tennessee1870–1879EditThe New York Orange Riot of 1871, between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants.1870 – First New York City orange riot1870 – Kirk-Holden war, July–Nov., Caswell and Alamance counties North Carolina1871 – Second New York City Orange riot1871 – Meridian race riot of 1871, March, Meridian, Mississippi1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot, Los Angeles, California1873 – Colfax massacre, April 13, Colfax, Louisiana1874 – Election Riot of 1874, Barbour County, Alabama1874 – Tompkins Square Riot, ew York City1874 – Battle of Liberty Place, New Orléans, Louisiana1876 – South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876, South Carolina1877 – Widespread rioting occurred across the US as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877:Baltimore railroad strike in Baltimore, MarylandPhiladelphia Railroad Strike, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh Railway Riots, in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaReading Railroad massacre, Reading, PennsylvaniaSaint Louis general strike, July, East St. Louis, IllinoisScranton General Strike, in Scranton, PennsylvaniaShamokin uprising, Shamokin, Pennsylvania1877 – San Francisco Riot of 18771880–1889Edit1880 – 1880 Garret Mountain May Day riot1884 – Cincinnati Courthouse riot, Cincinnati, Ohio1885 – Rock Springs massacre, Sept. 2 1885, Riot between Chinese miners and white miners. 28 killed, 15 injured, Rock Springs, Wyoming1886 – Haymarket riot, Chicago, Illinois1886 – Seattle riot of 1886, Seattle, Washington1888 – Jaybird-Woodpecker War, 1888–90, Violent post-Reconstruction political conflict in Texas. Fort Bend County, Texas1890–1899Edit1891 – Hennessy Affair, New Orleans, Louisiana1892 – Homestead strike, July 6, 1892, Homestead, Pennsylvania1892–1893 – Mitcham War, Clarke County, Alabama1894 – May Day riots of 1894, May 1, Cleveland, Ohio1894 – Pullman strike participants burn World's Columbian Exposition buildings, Chicago, Illinois1894 – Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike, coal mining regions1895 – New Orleans dockworkers riot, New Orleans, Louisiana1897 – Lattimer massacre, September 1897, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania1898 – Wilmington insurrection, November 10, Wilmington, North Carolina1899 – Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 189920th centuryEdit1900–1909Edit1900 – Akron Riot of 1900, Akron, Ohio1901 – Denver Riots, Denver, Colorado1901 – New York Race Riots1901 – Pierce City Riots, Pierce City, Missouri1902 – Liverpool Riots, Denver, Colorado1903 – Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–19041903 – Anthracite Coal Strike, Eastern Pennsylvania1903 – Evansville Race Riot, Evansville, Indiana1903 – Motormen's Riot, Richmond, Virginia1906 – Atlanta Riots, Atlanta, Georgia1907 – Bellingham riots, Bellingham, Washington1908 – Springfield Race Riot, Springfield, Illinois1910–1919Edit1910 – Philadelphia general strike (1910), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1912 – Lawrence textile strike, Lawrence, Massachusetts1913 – Wheatland Riot, August 3, Wheatland, California1913 – Paterson silk strike, Feb. 25-July 28 Paterson, New Jersey1913 – Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914, Calumet, Michigan1913 – Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, Indianapolis, Indiana1914 – Ludlow massacre, April 20, Ludlow, Colorado1916 – Preparedness Day bombing, July 22, San Francisco, California1916 – Everett massacre, November 5, Everett, Washington1917 – East St. Louis Riot, July 2, St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois1917 – Springfield Vigilante Riot, Springfield, Missouri1917 – Green Corn Rebellion, Aug. 3, A brief popular uprising advocating for the rural poor and against military conscription, Central Oklahoma1917 – Houston Race riot, August 23, Houston, Texas1917 – St. Paul Streetcar Riots, October and December, St. Paul, Minnesota1918 – Detroit trolley riot, Detroit, Michigan{Source: Detroit Free Press' The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}1919 – Seattle General Strike, Feb. 6-11,1919 – May Day Riots, May 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, New York1919 – Red Summer, USA1919 – Boston Police Strike, Boston, Massachusetts1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, Pennsylvania1919 – Charleston Race riot, May 10, Charleston, South Carolina1919 – Washington, DC Riot 1919, July 19, Washington, D.C.1919 – Chicago Race Riot, July 27 – Aug.2, Chicago, Illinois1919 – Knoxville Race riot, August 30, Knoxville, Tennessee1919 – Longview Race Riot, Longview, Texas1919 – Omaha Race riot, September 28, Omaha, Nebraska1919 – Elaine Race Riot, October 1, Elaine, Arkansas1919 – Centralia Massacre, November 11, Centralia, Washington1920–1929Edit1920 – Battle of Matewan, May 20, Matewan, West Virginia1920 – Ocoee massacre, November 2–3, Ocoee, Florida1921 – Tulsa Race Riot, May 31 – June 1, Tulsa, Oklahoma1921 – Battle of Blair Mountain, August–September, Logan County, West Virginia1922 – Herrin Massacre, June 21–22, Herrin, Illinois1922 – Straw Hat Riot, September 13–15, New York City, New York1922 – Perry race riot, December 14–15, Perry, Florida1923 – Rosewood Massacre, January 1–7, Rosewood, Florida1925 – Ossian Sweet incident, September, Detroit, Michigan1927 – Poughkeepsie, New York[further explanation needed]1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre, November 21, Serene, Colorado1929 – North Carolina Textile Strike, North Carolina[further explanation needed]1930–1939Edit1931 – Battle of Evarts, May 5, Harlan County, Kentucky1931 – Chicago Rent Strike Riot, August 3, Chicago, Illinois1931 – Hawaii Riot, Hawaii1932 – Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer 1932, Washington, D.C.1932 – Ford Hunger March, March 7, 3,000 unemployed workers march on Ford Motors, five are killed, River Rouge plant, Dearborn, Michigan1934 – Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota1934 – Auto-Lite strike, April 4 – June 3, the "Battle of Toledo" riot, Toledo, Ohio1934 – 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, May 9 – October 12, San Francisco Bay Area, California; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington1934 – Textile workers strike (1934)1934 – Detroit World Series riot, Oct. 10, Detroit, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press'The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}1935 – Harlem Riot, March 19–20, New York City1935 – Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Riot, Arkansas1937 – Flint Sit-Down Strike, General Motors' Fisher Body Plant, Flint, Michigan1937 – Battle of the Overpass, May 26, Dearborn, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}1937 – Republic Steel Strike, May 30, Chicago, Illinois1939 – U.S. Nazi Riot, New York City1940–1949Edit1942 – Sojourner Truth Homes Riot, February 28, Detroit, Michigan1943 – Beaumont race riot of 1943, Summer, Beaumont, Texas1943 – Zoot Suit Riots, July 3, Los Angeles, California (anti-Hispanic and anti-zoot suit)1943 – Detroit race riot of 1943, June 20–21, Detroit, Michigan1943 – Harlem riot of 1943, August 1–3, New York City, New York1946 – Columbia race riot of 1946, February 25–26, Columbia, Tennessee1946 – Battle of Athens (1946), August, revolt by citizens against corrupt local government, McMinn County, Tennessee1946 – Airport Homes race riots, Chicago, Illinois1949 – Anacostia Pool Riot, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.1949 – Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York1950–1959Edit1950 – San Juan Nationalist revolt, Utuado Uprising, Jayuya Uprising, Oct. 30, Various uprisings against United States Government rule during the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico1951 – Cicero race riot of 1951, July 12, Cicero, Illinois1956 – Mansfield School Integration Incident400 pro-segregationists brandishing weapons and racist signage prevent 12 black children from entering Mansfield High School Mansfield, TX1958 – Battle of Hayes Pond, January 18, Maxton, North Carolina, Armed confrontation between members of the NC Lumbee tribe and the KKK.1959 – Harriett-Henderson Cotton Mills Strike Henderson, North Carolina1960–1969Edit1960 – HUAC riot, May 13, Students protest House Un-American Activities Committeehearings, 12 injured, 64 arrested, San Francisco, California1960 – Newport Jazz Festival Riot, July 2, Newport, Rhode Island1960 – El Cajon Boulevard Riot, August 20, San Diego, California1960 – Ax Handle Saturday, August 27, Jacksonville, Florida1962 – Ole Miss riot 1962, September 3 – October 1, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi1963 – Birmingham riot of 1963, May 11, Birmingham, Alabama1963 – Cambridge riot 1963, June 14, Cambridge, Maryland1964 – the July 16 police-killing of James Powell, in the Yorkville neighbourhood just south of East Harlem, precipitates a string of race riots in July and August, including:1964 – Harlem Riot of 1964, July 16–22, New York City1964 – Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25, Rochester, New York1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot, August 28–30, Philadelphia1965 – Selma to Montgomery marches, March 7–25, Alabama1965 – Watts riots, August 11–17, Los Angeles, California1966 – Division Street riots, June 12–14, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois1966 – Omaha riot of 1966, July 2, Omaha, Nebraska1966 – 1966 Chicago West-Side riots, July 12–15, Chicago, Illinois1966 – Hough riots, July 18–24, Cleveland, Ohio1966 – Marquette Park housing march, August 5, Chicago, Illinois1966 – Waukegan riot, August 27, Waukegan, Illinois1966 – Benton Harbor riots, August 30 – September 4, Benton Harbor, Michigan1966 – Summerhill and Vine City Riots, September 6–8 Atlanta, Georgia1966 – Hunters Point social uprising, September 27–October 1 San Francisco, California1966 – Sunset Strip curfew riots, November 12, various other flareups, basis for the song "For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song)", West Hollywood, California1967 – Long Hot Summer of 1967 refers to a year in which 159 race riots, almost all African-American, erupted across the United States, including:1967 – Avondale riots, June 12–15, Cincinnati, Ohio1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27, Buffalo, New York1967 – 1967 Newark riots, July 12–17, Newark, New Jersey1967 – 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–21, Plainfield, New Jersey1967 – Cairo riot, July 17, Cairo, Illinois1967 – 1967 Detroit riot, July 23–29, Detroit, Michigan1967 – Cambridge riot of 1967, July 24, a.k.a. the H. Rap Brown riot, Cambridge, Maryland1967 – 1967 Saginaw riot, July 26, Saginaw, Michigan1967 – Milwaukee riot, July 30, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1968 – Orangeburg Massacre, S.C. State Univ., February 8, Orangeburg, South Carolina1968 – Memphis Sanitation Strike riot, March 28, Memphis, Tennessee1968 – Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, Memphis, Tennessee, precipitates all April 4–14 riots, including:1968 – 1968 Detroit riot, April 4–5, Detroit, Michigan1968 – 1968 New York City riots, April 4–5, New York City, New York1968 – 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 4–8, Washington, D.C.1968 – 1968 Chicago riots, West Side Riots, April 5–7, Chicago, Illinois1968 – 1968 Pittsburgh riots, April 5–11, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1968 – Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–14, Baltimore, MD1968 – Avondale riot of 1968, April 8, Cincinnati, Ohio1968 – 1968 Kansas City riot, April 9, Kansas City, Missouri1968 – Wilmington Riot of 1968, April 9–10, Wilmington, Delaware1968 – Trenton Riot of 1968, April 9–11, Trenton, New Jersey1968 – Columbia University protests of 1968, April 23, New York City, New York1968 – Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, Louisville, Kentucky1968 – Akron riot, July 17–23, Akron, Ohio1968 – Glenville Shootout, July 23–28, Cleveland, Ohio1968 – 1968 Miami riot, August 7–8, Miami, Florida1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, including the police riots of August 27–28, Chicago, Illinois1969 – Zip to Zap riot, May 9–11, Zap, North Dakota1969 – People's Park Riots, May, Berkeley, California1969 – 1969 Greensboro uprising, May 21–25, Greensboro, North Carolina1969 – Cairo disorders, May–December, Cairo, Illinois1969 – Stonewall riots, June 28 – July 2, New York City, New York1969 – 1969 York Race Riot, July 17–24, York, Pennsylvania1969 – Days of Rage, October 8–11, Weathermen riot in Chicago, Illinois1970–1979Edit1970 – University of Puerto Rico riot, March 4–11, at least one killed, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico1970 – Student strike of 1970, May 19701970 – Kent State riots/shootings, May 1970, four killed, Kent, Ohio1970 – New Haven Green Disorders, Yale University, May 1970, New Haven, Connecticut1970 – Augusta Riot, May 11–13, Augusta, Georgia1970 – Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City1970 – Jackson State killings, May 14–15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi1970 – 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24–27, Royal Oak, Michigan1970 – Sterling Hall bombing, Univ. of Wisc., August 24, one killed, Madison, Wisconsin1970 – Chicano Moratorium riot, August 29, Los Angeles, California1971 – Wilmington riot 1971, February 9, Wilmington, North Carolina1971 – May Day protests 1971, May 3, Washington, D.C.1971 – Camden riots, August 1971, Camden, New Jersey1971 – Attica Prison uprising, September 9–13, at least 39 killed, Attica, New York1973 – Wounded Knee incident, February 27 – May 8, Wounded Knee, South Dakota1974 – SLA Shootout, May 17, Los Angeles, California1974 – Baltimore police strike, July, Baltimore, Maryland1974 – Boston busing race riots anti-busing riots throughout. Boston, Massachusetts1975 – Livernois–Fenkell riot, July 1975, Detroit, Michigan1976 – Escambia High School riots, February 5, Pensacola, Florida1976 – Anti-busing riot in downtown Boston, April 5, Boston, Massachusetts1976 – Marquette Park unrest, June–August, Chicago, Illinois1977 – Humboldt Park riot, June 5–6, Chicago, Illinois1977 – New York City Blackout riot 1977, July 13–14, New York City, New York1978 – Moody Park riot, May 5, 1978, Houston, Texas1979 – White Night riots, May 1979, San Francisco, California1979 – Greensboro massacre, November 3, Greensboro, North Carolina1980–1989Edit1980 – New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, February 2–3, Santa Fe, New Mexico1980 – Miami riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida1986 – Marquette Park KKK rally, June 28, Chicago, Illinois1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, August 6–7, New York City1988 – Cedar Grove, Shreveport, Louisiana, In September 1988 there was a full-blown riot in which the police were forced to block off the entire neighborhood because it was out of control. Cars and businesses were burned.1989 – Miami riot, Miami, Florida, Jan. 16, Three days of rioting breaks out in the Overtown and Liberty City sections of Miami after a police officer shoots and kills a black motorcyclist. 11 people wounded. Over 1 million dollars in damage.1990–1999Edit1991 – 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C.1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York1992 – L.A. Rodney King riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California1992 – 1992 Washington Heights riots, July 4–7, Manhattan, New York, Dominican community1994 – Eastside Lexington riots, October 26, 1994, Lexington, Kentucky1996 – St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, October 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida1997 – North Hollywood shootout, February 1997, Los Angeles, California1999 – Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, East Lansing, Michigan1999 – Woodstock '99 music festival incident, July 1999, Rome, New York1999 – WTO Meeting of 1999, "The Battle in Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington21st centuryEdit2000–2009Edit2000 – Elián González affair, Miami, Florida2000 – Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks, June 11, Central Park, New York City2001 – Seattle Mardi Gras riot, February 27, 2001, Seattle, Washington2001 – 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April 10–12, Cincinnati, Ohio2002 – Great Brook Valley Project Riots, August 18, Worcester, MA, Puerto Rican2002 – North Minneapolis Riots, August 22, Minneapolis, Minnesota2003 – Benton Harbor riot, June 2003, Benton Harbor, Michigan2003 – Miami FTAA Protests, November 2003, Miami, Florida2004 – 2004 American League Championship Series, October 21, 1 dead, Boston, Massachusetts2005 – Civil disturbances and military action in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, August – Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana2005 – 2005 Toledo riot, October 15, Toledo, Ohio2006 – San Bernardino punk riot, March 4, San Bernardino, California2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée, May 1, Los Angeles, California2009 – Riots against BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, January 7, 120 arrested, Oakland, California2009 – Akron riots, March 14, 2009, 7 arrested; and July 2009, unknown number arrested, Akron, Ohio2009 – 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summitprotests, Sept. 24-25, 193 arrested2010–2017Edit2010 – Springfest riot, April 10, 200 police disperse crowd of 8,000 using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and bean bag rounds, near the campus of James Madison University; dozens injured. 30–35 arrested; Harrisonburg, Virginia2010 – Santa Cruz May Day riot, May 1, 250 rampage through downtown Santa Cruz attacking 18 businesses, causing an estimated $100,000 in damages. 1 arrested. Santa Cruz, California2010 – Oakland protest riot, Nov. 5, Police made more than 150 arrests as a crowd broke windows and knocked down fences, protesting sentence of former BART officer in shooting of Oscar Grant on New Years Day 2009; see BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant. Oakland, California2011 – Pennsylvania State University, Joe Paterno riot. Students riot in protest of the decision of the Board of Trustees to fire head football coach Joe Paterno. State College, Pennsylvania2011 – Occupy Wall Street (Brooklyn Bridgeprotests). Demonstrators blocked the bridge and more than 700 people were arrested. New York, New York2011 – Occupy Wall Street Oakland protests riots. October. Protesters shattered windows, set fires, and plastered buildings with graffiti. Riot police fired heavy amounts of tear gas on the protesters.2012 – NATO 2012 Chicago Summit, May. Conflict between riot police and protesters. Dozens of demonstrators clubbed and arrested.2012 – Anaheim police shooting and protests, July 28. Violence erupted after multiple shootings in the neighborhood by police that included unarmed Manuel Diaz. 24 people were arrested2013 – Flatbush Riots, March 11, Riots in Brooklyn, New York after the death of Kimani Gray who was shot and killed by NYPD2014 – Ferguson unrest, Ferguson, Missouri, August 10. Following the shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, protests erupt in the streets. Police respond with riot gear, tear gas and rubber bullets.2014 – New York, New York, and Berkeley, California – After prosecutors and a grand jury refused to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, protests erupted in New York City and other cities.2015 – 2015 Baltimore protests, April 25–28. Days of protests break out following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. 34 people are arrested and 15 Officers injured after rioting and looting break out. Gray's funeral was held on April 27 and followed by further protests and looting. Governor Hogan had pre-emptively activated the Maryland National Guard, while the Maryland State Police had activated at least 500 officers.2016 – Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, January–February 2016. 1 killed and several dozen arrested. Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon2016 – 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest, March 11. Five people arrested and two police officers injured during a demonstration at the UIC Pavilion.2016 – Democracy Spring rally in April. March to Washington D.C. and sit-ins lead to arrests.2016 – 2016 Sacramento riot, June 26, A confrontation between white nationalists and left-wing counter protesters at the California State Capitol. Ten people were hospitalized for stabbing and laceration wounds.2016 – Widespread protests erupt in response to two deaths at the hands of police, the Shooting of Alton Sterling and shooting of Philando Castile. At least 261 people were arrested in protests in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, and other cities.2016 – 2016 Milwaukee riots, Sherman Park, August 13–15. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.2016 – 2016 Charlotte riot, September 20–21, Protests and riots break out in response to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a Charlotte police officer.2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline protests, 411 protesters arrested. Multiple skirmishes with police, with vehicles, hay bales, and tires set on fire.2016 – Anti-Trump protests, Nov. 9-27. As a result of Donald Trump elected as 45th President of the U.S., thousands protested across twenty-five American cities, and unrest broke out in downtown Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. In Oakland, over 40 fires started and police officers were injured.2017 – Anti-Trump protests at the inauguration in Washington, D.C., January 20. Objects were thrown at police, businesses damaged, and a limousine was set on fire. More than 230 were arrested.2017 – Berkeley, California, February 1, civil unrest ensued at UC Berkeley as Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on the campus.[2][3]2017 – 2017 Anaheim, California protests, February 21, protesters demonstrate after police officer grabs boy and fires his gun. Protesters damage property and throw bottles and rocks at police.2017 – Berkeley, California, March 4, Brawls erupt when Trump supporters and counter-protestors were attacked at the March 4 Trump rally.[4]2017 – Berkeley, California, 2017 Berkeley protests become violent when Trump supporters and protestors clashed at "Patriot's Day" rally for Trump.[5]2017 – May Day, violence breaks out at May Day protests in Olympia, and Portland, as masked anarchists damage property and clash with police.2017 – 2017 Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11–12. At a Unite the Right rally of white nationalists and white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, rally attendees and counter-protesters clashed, sometimes violently. A woman was killed and 19 other injured when a rally attendee drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors. Two law enforcement officers also died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the event. Afterward, President Trump causes backlash with "both sides" comment which was largely seen as excusing or siding with the White Nationalist and racist groups in attendance.2017 – 2017 St. Louis protests, September 15–present (December 24, 2017), protests erupted when police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith on December 20, 2011. Some of the protests turned violent. After declaring the protests an "unlawful assembly", police officers were pelted with water bottles and rocks. Protesters also descended upon Mayor Lyda Krewson's home, and threw bricks at the house and vandalized it. Police deployed tear gas to break up the crowd. By Monday 140 arrested.