January 20 2015: Fill & Download for Free

RE: “wouldn't a White Supremacist country expel, genocide, or otherwise remove the citizenship of non-whites? Also, wouldn't it censor or murder any 'traitor' who speaks up in their defense.”That is exactly what is going on in the United States of America, right now.Sometimes, it is overt. Much more often, it is covert.In other words — pay attention.—RE: Genocide — recent cases of unarmed blacks being shot dead or murdered by white police officers:Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., October 7, 1968 - January 10, 2021Killeen, TexasShot: Killeen Police Officer, January 10, 2021Vincent “Vinny” M. Belmonte, September 14, 2001 - January 5, 2021Cleveland, OhioShot: Cleveland Police Officer, January 5, 20201Angelo Quinto, March 10, 1990 - December 26, 2020Antioch, CaliforniaKnee on neck/Asphyxiated: December 23, 2020Andre Maurice Hill, May 23, 1973 - December 22, 2020Columbus, OhioShot: December 22, 2020, Columbus Police OfficerCasey Christopher Goodson Jr., January 30, 1997 - December 4, 2020Columbus, OhioShot: December 4, 2020, Franklin County Sheriff DeputyAngelo “AJ” Crooms, May 15, 2004 - November 13, 2020Cocoa, FloridaShot: November 13, 2020, Brevard County Sheriff DeputiesSincere Pierce, April 2, 2002 - November 13, 2020Cocoa, FloridaShot: November 13, 2020, Brevard County Sheriff DeputiesMarcellis Stinnette, June 17, 2001 - October 20, 2020Waukegan, IllinoisShot: October 20, 2020, Waukegan Police OfficerJonathan Dwayne Price, November 3, 1988 - October 3, 2020Wolfe City, TexasTasered/Shot: October 3, 2020, Wolfe City Police OfficerDijon Durand Kizzee, February 5, 1991 - August 31, 2020Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: August 21, 2020, Los Angeles County PoliceRayshard Brooks, January 31, 1993 - June 12, 2020Atlanta, GeorgiaShot: June 12, 2020, Atlanta Police OfficerCarlos Carson, May 16, 1984 - June 6, 2020Tulsa, OklahomaPepper Sprayed/Shot in Head: June 6, 2020, Knights Inn Tulsa Armed Security Guard, former sergeant and detention officer with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s OfficeDavid McAtee, August 3, 1966 - June 1, 2020Louisville, KentuckyShot: June 1, 2020, Louisville Metropolitan Police OfficerTony “Tony the TIger” McDade, 1982 - May 27, 2020Tallahassee, FloridaShot: May 27, 2020, Tallahassee Police OfficersGeorge Perry Floyd, October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020Powderhorn, Minneapolis, MinnesotaKnee on neck/Asphyxiated: May 25, 2020, Minneapolis Police OfficerDreasjon “Sean” Reed, 1999 - May 6, 2020Indianapolis, IndianaShot: May 6, 2020, Unidentified Indianapolis Metropolitan Police OfficerMichael Brent Charles Ramos, January 1, 1978 - April 24, 2020Austin, TexasShot: April 24, 2020, Austin Police DetectivesDaniel T. Prude, September 20, 1978 - March 30, 2020Rochester, New YorkAsphyxiation: March 23, 2020, Rochester Police OfficersBreonna Taylor, June 5, 1993 - March 13, 2020Louisville, KentuckyShot: March 13, 2020, Louisville Metro Police OfficersManuel “Mannie” Elijah Ellis, August 28, 1986 - March 3, 2020Tacoma, WashingtonPhysical restraint/Hypoxia: March 3, 2020, Tacoma Police OfficersWilliam Howard Green, March 16, 1976 - January 27, 2020Temple Hills, MarylandShot: January 27, 2020, Prince George’s County Police OfficerJohn Elliot Neville, 1962 - December 4, 2019Winston-Salem, North CarolinaAsphyxiated (hog-tied in prone position)/Heart Attack/Brain Injury: December 2, 2019, Forsyth County Sheriff OfficersAtatiana Koquice Jefferson, November 28, 1990 - October 12, 2019Fort Worth, TexasShot: October 12, 2019, Fort Worth Police OfficerElijah McClain, February 25, 1996 - August 30, 2019Aurora, ColoradoChokehold/Ketamine/Heart Attack: August 24, 2019, Aurora Police Officers and ParamedicRonald Greene, September 28, 1969 - May 10, 2019Monroe, LouisianaStun gun/Force: May 10, 2019, Louisiana State PoliceJavier Ambler, October 7, 1978 - March 28, 2019Austin, TexasTasered/Electrocuted: March 28, 2019, Williamson County Sheriff DeputySterling Lapree Higgins, October 27, 1981 - March 25, 2019Union City, TennesseeChoke hold/Asphyxiation: March 24-25, 2019, Union City Police Officer and Obion County Sheriff DeputiesGregory Lloyd Edwards, September 23, 1980 - December 10, 2018Brevard County Jail, Cocoa, FloridaKneed, Punched, Pepper Sprayed, Tasered, and Strapped into a restraint chair with a spit hood over his head/Failure to Provide Medical Care: December 9, 2019, Brevard County SheriffsEmantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., June 18, 1997 - November 22, 2018Hoover, AlabamaShot: November 22, 2018, Unidentified Hoover Police OfficersCharles “Chop” Roundtree Jr., September 5, 2000 - October 17, 2018San Antonio, TexasShot: October 17, 2018, San Antonio Police OfficerChinedu Okobi, February 13, 1982 - October 3, 2018Millbrae, CaliforniaTasered/Electrocuted: October 3, 2018, San Mateo County Sheriff Sergeant and Sheriff DeputiesAnton Milbert LaRue Black, October 18, 1998 - September 15, 2018Greensboro, MarylandTasered/Sudden Cardiac Arrest: September 15, 2018, Greensboro Police OfficersBotham Shem Jean, September 29, 1991 - September 6, 2018Dallas, TexasShot: September 6, 2018, Dallas Police OfficerAntwon Rose Jr., July 12, 2000 - June 19, 2018East Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaShot: June 19, 2018, East Pittsburgh Police OfficerSaheed Vassell, December 22, 1983 - April 4, 2018Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot: April 4, 2018, Four Unnamed New York City Police OfficersStephon Alonzo Clark, August 10, 1995 - March 18, 2018Sacramento, CaliforniaShot: March 18, 2018, Sacramento Police OfficersDennis Plowden Jr., 1992 - December 28, 2017East Germantown, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaShot: December 27, 2017, Philadelphia Police OfficerBijan Ghaisar, September 4, 1992 - November 27, 2017George Washington Memorial Parkway, Alexandria, VirginiaShot: November 17, 2017, U.S. Park Police OfficersAaron Bailey, 1972 - June 29, 2017Indianapolis, IndianaShot: June 29, 2017, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police OfficersCharleena Chavon Lyles, April 24, 1987 - June 18, 2017Seattle, WashingtonShot: June 18, 2017, Seattle Police OfficersFetus of Charleena Chavon Lyles (14-15 weeks), June 18, 2017Seattle, WashingtonShot: June 18, 2017, Seattle Police OfficersJordan Edwards, October 25, 2001 - April 29, 2017Balch Springs, TexasShot: April 29, 2017, Balch Springs OfficerChad Robertson, 1992 - February 15, 2017Chicago, IllinoisShot: February 8, 2017, Chicago Police OfficerDeborah Danner, September 25, 1950 - October 18, 2016The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: October 18, 2016, New York City Police OfficersAlfred Olango, July 29, 1978 - September 27, 2016El Cajon, CaliforniaShot: September 27, 2016, El Cajon Police OfficersTerence Crutcher, August 16, 1976 - September 16, 2016Tulsa, OklahomaShot: September 16, 2016, Tulsa Police OfficerTerrence LeDell Sterling, July 31, 1985 - September 11, 2016Washington, DCShot: September 11, 2016, Washington Metropolitan Police OfficerKorryn Gaines, August 24, 1993 - August 1, 2016Randallstown, MarylandShot: August 1, 2016, Baltimore County PoliceJoseph Curtis Mann, 1966 - July 11, 2016Sacramento, CaliforniaShot: July 11, 2016, Sacramento Police OfficersPhilando Castile, July 16, 1983 - July 6, 2016Falcon Heights, MinnesotaShot: July 6, 2016, St. Anthony Police OfficerAlton Sterling, June 14, 1979 - July 5, 2016Baton Rouge, LouisianaShot: July 5, 2016, Baton Rouge Police OfficersBettie “Betty Boo” Jones, 1960 - December 26, 2015Chicago, IllinoisShot: December 26, 2015, Chicago Police OfficerQuintonio LeGrier, April 29, 1996 - December 26, 2015Chicago, IllinoisShot: December 26, 2015, Chicago Police OfficerCorey Lamar Jones, February 3, 1984 - October 18, 2015Palm Beach Gardens, FloridaShot: October 18, 2015, Palm Beach Gardens Police OfficerJamar O’Neal Clark, May 3, 1991 - November 16, 2015Minneapolis, MinnesotaShot: November 15, 2015, Minneapolis Police OfficersJeremy “Bam Bam” McDole, 1987 - September 23, 2015Wilmington, DelawareShot: September 23, 2015, Wilmington Police OfficersIndia Kager, June 9, 1988 - September 5, 2015Virginia Beach, VirginiaShot: September 5, 2015, Virginia Beach Police OfficersSamuel Vincent DuBose, March 12, 1972 - July 19, 2015Cincinnati, OhioShot: July 19, 2015, University of Cincinnati Police OfficerSandra Bland, February 7, 1987 - July 13, 2015Waller County, TexasExcessive Force/Wrongful Death/Suicide (?): July 10, 2015, Texas State TrooperBrendon K. Glenn, 1986 - May 5, 2015Venice, CaliforniaShot: May 5, 2015, Los Angeles Police OfficerFreddie Carlos Gray Jr., August 16, 1989 - April 19, 2015Baltimore, MarylandBrute Force/Spinal Injuries: April 12, 2015, Baltimore City Police OfficersWalter Lamar Scott, February 9, 1965 - April 4, 2015North Charleston, South CarolinaShot: April 4, 2015, North Charleston Police OfficerEric Courtney Harris, October 10, 1971 - April 2, 2015Tulsa, OklahomaShot: April 2, 2015, Tulsa County Reserve DeputyPhillip Gregory White, 1982 - March 31, 2015Vineland, New JerseyK-9 Mauling/Respiratory distress: March 31, 2015, Vineland Police OfficersMya Shawatza Hall, December 5, 1987 - March 30, 2015Fort Meade, MarylandShot: March 30, 2015, National Security Agency Police OfficersMeagan Hockaday, August 27, 1988 - March 28, 2015Oxnard, CaliforniaShot: March 28, 2015, Oxnard Police OfficerTony Terrell Robinson, Jr., October 18, 1995 - March 6, 2015Madison, WisconsinShot: March 6, 2015, Madison Police OfficerJanisha Fonville, March 3, 1994 - February 18 2015Charlotte, North CarolinaShot: February 18, 2015, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police OfficerNatasha McKenna, January 9, 1978 - February 8, 2015Fairfax County, VirginiaTasered/Cardiac Arrest: February 3, 2015, Fairfax County Sheriff DeputiesJerame C. Reid, June 8, 1978 - December 30, 2014Bridgeton, New JerseyShot: December 30, 2014, Bridgeton Police OfficerRumain Brisbon, November 24, 1980 - December 2, 2014Phoenix, ArizonaShot: December 2, 2014, Phoenix Police OfficerTamir Rice, June 15, 2002 - November 22, 2014Cleveland, OhioShot: November 22, 2014, Cleveland Police OfficerAkai Kareem Gurley, November 12, 1986 - November 20, 2014Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot: November 20, 2014, New York City Police OfficerTanisha N. Anderson, January 22, 1977 - November 13, 2014Cleveland, OhioPhysically Restrained/Brute Force: November 13, 2014, Cleveland Police OfficersDante Parker, August 14, 1977 - August 12, 2014Victorville, CaliforniaTasered/Excessive Force: August 12, 2014, San Bernardino County Sheriff DeputiesEzell Ford, October 14, 1988 - August 11, 2014Florence, Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: August 11, 2014, Los Angeles Police OfficersMichael Brown Jr., May 20, 1996 - August 9, 2014Ferguson, MissouriShot: August 9, 2014, Ferguson Police OfficerJohn Crawford III, July 29, 1992 - August 5, 2014Beavercreek, OhioShot: August 5, 2014, Beavercreek Police OfficerTyree Woodson, July 8, 1976 - August 2, 2014Baltimore, MarylandShot: August 2, 2014, Baltimore City Police OfficerEric Garner, September 15, 1970 - July 17, 2014Staten Island, New YorkChoke hold/Suffocated: July 17, 2014, New York City Police OfficerDontre Hamilton, January 20, 1983 - April 30, 2014Milwaukee, WisconsinShot: April 30, 2014, Milwaukee Police OfficerVictor White III, September 11, 1991 - March 3, 2014New Iberia, LouisianaShot: March 2, 2014, Iberia Parish Sheriff DeputyGabriella Monique Nevarez, November 25, 1991 - March 2, 2014Citrus Heights, CaliforniaShot: March 2, 2014, Citrus Heights Police OfficersYvette Smith, December 18, 1966 - February 16, 2014Bastrop County, TexasShot: February 16, 2014, Bastrop County Sheriff DeputyMcKenzie J. Cochran, August 25, 1988 - January 29, 2014Southfield, MichiganPepper Sprayed/Compression Asphyxiation: January 28, 2014, Northland Mall Security GuardsJordan Baker, 1988 - January 16, 2014Houston, TexasShot: January 16, 2014, Off-duty Houston Police OfficerAndy Lopez, June 2, 2000 - October 22, 2013Santa Rosa, CaliforniaShot: October 22, 2013, Sonoma County Sheriff DeputyMiriam Iris Carey, August 12, 1979 - October 3, 2013Washington, DCShot 26 times: October 3, 2013, U. S. Secret Service OfficerBarrington “BJ” Williams, 1988 - September 17, 2013New York City, New YorkNeglect/Disdain/Asthma Attack: September 17, 2013, New York City Police OfficersJonathan Ferrell, October 11, 1989 - September 14, 2013Charlotte, North CarolinaShot: September 14, 2013, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police OfficerCarlos Alcis, 1970 - August 15, 2013Brooklyn, New York CityHeart Attack/Neglect: August 15, 2013, New York City Police OfficersLarry Eugene Jackson Jr., November 29, 1980 - July 26, 2013Austin, TexasShot: July 26, 2013, Austin Police DetectiveKyam Livingston, July 29, 1975 - July 21, 2013New York City, New YorkNeglect/Ignored pleas for help: July 20-21, 2013, New York City Police OfficersClinton R. Allen, September 26, 1987 - March 10, 2013Dallas, TexasTasered and Shot: March 10, 2013, Dallas Police OfficerKimani “KiKi” Gray, October 19, 1996 - March 9, 2013Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot: March 9, 2013, New York Police OfficersKayla Moore, April 17, 1971 - February 13, 2013Berkeley, CaliforniaRestrained face-down prone: February 12, 2013, Berkeley Police OfficersJamaal Moore Sr., 1989 - December 15, 2012Chicago, IllinoisShot: December 15, 2012, Chicago Police OfficerJohnnie Kamahi Warren, February 26, 1968 - February 13, 2012Dothan, AlabamaTasered/Electrocuted: December 10, 2012, Houston County (AL) Sheriff DeputyShelly Marie Frey, April 21, 1985 - December 6, 2012Houston, TexasShot: December 6, 2012, Off-duty Harris County Sheriff's DeputyDarnisha Diana Harris, December 11, 1996 - December 2, 2012Breaux Bridge, LouisianaShot: December 2, 2012, Breaux Bridge Police OfficeTimothy Russell, December 9. 1968 - November 29, 2012Cleveland, Ohio137 Rounds/Shot 23 times: November 29, 2012, Cleveland Police OfficersMalissa Williams, June 20, 1982 - November 29, 2012Cleveland, Ohio137 Rounds/Shot 24 times: November 29, 2012, Cleveland Police OfficersNoel Palanco, November 28, 1989 - October 4, 2012Queens, New York City, New YorkShot: October 4, 2012, New York City Police OfficersReynaldo Cuevas, January 6, 1992 - September 7, 2012Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: September 7, 2012, New York City Police OfficerChavis Carter, 1991 - July 28, 2012Jonesboro, ArkansasShot: July 28, 2012, Jonesboro Police OfficerAlesia Thomas, June 1, 1977 - July 22, 2012Los Angeles, CaliforniaBrutal Force/Beaten: July 22, 2012, Los Angeles Police OfficersShantel Davis, May 26, 1989 - June 14, 2012New York City, New YorkShot: June 14, 2012, New York City Police OfficerSharmel T. Edwards, October 10, 1962 - April 21, 2012Las Vegas, NevadaShot: April 21, 2012, Las Vegas Police OfficersTamon Robinson, December 21, 1985 - April 18, 2012Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkRun over by police car: April 12, 2012, New York City Police OfficersErvin Lee Jefferson, III, 1994 - March 24, 2012Atlanta, GeorgiaShot: March 24, 2012, Shepperson Security & Escort Services Security GuardsKendrec McDade, May 5, 1992 - March 24, 2012Pasadena, CaliforniaShot: March 24, 2012, Pasadena Police OfficersRekia Boyd, November 5, 1989 - March 21, 2012Chicago, IllinoisShot: March 21, 2012, Off-duty Chicago Police DetectiveShereese Francis, 1982 - March 15, 2012Queens, New York City, New YorkSuffocated to death: March 15, 2012, New York City Police OfficersJersey K. Green, June 17, 1974 - March 12, 2012Aurora, IllinoisTasered/Electrocuted: March 12, 2012, Aurora Police OfficersWendell James Allen, December 19, 1991 - March 7, 2012New Orleans, LouisianaShot: March 7, 2012, New Orleans Police OfficerNehemiah Lazar Dillard, July 29, 1982 - March 5, 2012Gainesville, FloridaTasered/Electrocuted: March 5, 2012, Alachua County Sheriff DeputiesDante’ Lamar Price, July 18, 1986 - March 1, 2012Dayton, OhioShot: March 1, 2012, Ranger Security GuardsRaymond Luther Allen Jr., 1978 - February 29, 2012Galveston, TexasTasered/Electrocuted: February 27, 2012, Galveston Police OfficersManual Levi Loggins Jr., February 22, 1980 - February 7, 2012San Clemente, Orange County, CaliforniaShot: February 7, 2012, Orange County Sheriff DeputyRamarley Graham, April 12, 1993 - February 2, 2012The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: February 2, 2012, New York City Police OfficerKenneth Chamberlain Sr., April 12, 1943 - November 19, 2011White Plains, New YorkTasered/Electrocuted/Shot: November 19, 2011, White Plains Police OfficersAlonzo Ashley, June 10, 1982 - July 18, 2011Denver, ColoradoTasered/Electrocuted: July 18, 2011, Denver Police OfficersDerek Williams, January 23, 1989 - July 6, 2011Milwaukee, WisconsinBlunt Force/Respiratory distress: July 6, 2011, Milwaukee Police OfficersRaheim Brown, Jr., March 4, 1990 - January 22, 2011Oakland, CaliforniaShot: January 22, 2011, Oakland Unified School District PoliceReginald Doucet, June 3, 1985 - January 14, 2011Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: January 14, 2011, Los Angeles Police OfficerDerrick Jones, September 30, 1973 - November 8, 2010Oakland, CaliforniaShot: November 8, 2010, Oakland Police OfficersDanroy “DJ” Henry Jr., October 29, 1990 - October 17, 2010Pleasantville, New YorkShot: October 17, 2020, Pleasantville Police OfficerAiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, July 20, 2002 - May 16, 2010Detroit, MichiganShot: May 16, 2010, Detroit Police OfficerSteven Eugene Washington, September 20, 1982 - March 20, 2010Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: March 20, 2010, Los Angeles County PoliceAaron Campbell, September 7, 1984 - January 29, 2010Portland, OregonShot: January 29, 2010, Portland Police OfficerKiwane Carrington, July 14, 1994 - October 9, 2009Champaign, IllinoisShot: October 9, 2019, Champaign Police OfficerVictor Steen, November 11, 1991 - October 3, 2009Pensacola, FloridaTasered/Run over: October 3, 2009, Pensacola Police OfficerShem Walker, March 18, 1960 - July 11, 2009Brooklyn, New YorkShot: July 11, 2009, New York City Undercover C-94 Police OfficerOscar Grant III, February 27, 1986 - January 1, 2009Oakland, CaliforniaShot: January 1, 2009, BART Police OfficerTarika Wilson, October 30, 1981 - January 4, 2008Lima, OhioShot January 4, 2008, Lima Police OfficerDeAunta Terrel Farrow, September 7, 1994 - June 22, 2007West Memphis, ArkansasShot: June 22, 2007, West Memphis (AR) Police OfficerSean Bell, May 23, 1983 - November 25, 2006Queens, New York City, New YorkShot: November 25, 2006, New York City Police OfficersKathryn Johnston, June 26, 1914 - November 21, 2006Atlanta, GeorgiaShot: November 21, 2006, Undercover Atlanta Police OfficersRonald Curtis Madison, March 1, 1965 - September 4, 2005Danziger Bridge, New Orleans, LouisianaShot: September 4, 2005, New Orleans Police OfficersJames B. Brissette Jr., November 6, 1987 - September 4, 2005Danziger Bridge, New Orleans, LouisianaShot: September 4, 2005, New Orleans Police OfficersHenry “Ace” Glover, October 2, 1973 - September 2, 2005New Orleans, LouisianaShot: September 2, 2005, New Orleans Police OfficersTimothy Stansbury, Jr., November 16, 1984 - January 24, 2004Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot: January 24, 2004, New York City Police OfficerOusmane Zongo, 1960 - May 22, 2003New York City, New YorkShot: May 22, 2003, New York City Police OfficerAlberta Spruill, 1946 - May 16, 2003New York City, New YorkStun grenade thrown into her apartment led to a heart attack: May 16, 2003, New York City Police OfficerKendra Sarie James, December 24, 1981 - May 5, 2003Portland, OregonShot: May 5, 2003, Portland Police OfficerOrlando Barlow, December 29, 1974 - February 28, 2003Las Vegas, NevadaShot: February 28, 2003, Las Vegas Police OfficerNelson Martinez Mendez, 1977 - August 8, 2001Bellevue, WashingtonShot: August 8, 2001, Bellevue Police OfficerTimothy DeWayne Thomas Jr., July 25, 1981 - April 7, 2001Cincinnati, OhioShot: April 7, 2001, Cincinnati Police PatrolmanRonald Beasley, 1964 - June 12, 2000Dellwood, MissouriShot: June 12, 2000, Dellwood Police OfficersEarl Murray, 1964 - June 12, 2000Dellwood, MissouriShot: June 12, 2000, Dellwood Police OfficersPatrick Moses Dorismond, February 28, 1974 - March 16, 2000New York City, New YorkShot: March 16, 2000, New York City Police OfficerPrince Carmen Jones Jr., March 30, 1975 - September 1, 2000Fairfax County, VirginiaShot: September 1, 2000, Prince George’s County Police OfficerMalcolm Ferguson, October 31, 1976 - March 1, 2000The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: March 1, 2000, New York City Police OfficerLaTanya Haggerty, 1973 - June 4, 1999Chicago, IllinoisShot: June 4, 1999, Chicago Police OfficerMargaret LaVerne Mitchell, 1945 - May 21, 1999Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: May 21, 1999, Los Angeles Police OfficerAmadou Diallo, September 2, 1975 - February 4, 1999The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: February 4, 1999, New York City Police OfficersTyisha Shenee Miller, March 9, 1979 - December 28, 1998Riverside, CaliforniaShot: December 28, 1998, Riverside Police OfficersDannette “Strawberry” Daniels, January 25, 1966 - June 7, 1997Newark, New JerseyShot: June 7, 1997, Newark Police OfficerFrankie Ann Perkins, 1960 - March 22, 1997Chicago, IllinoisBrutal Force/Strangled: March 22, 1997, Chicago Police OfficersNicholas Heyward Jr., August 26, 1981 - September 27, 1994Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot: September 27, 1994, New York City Police OfficerMary Mitchell, 1950 - November 3, 1991The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: November 3, 1991, New York City Police OfficerYvonne Smallwood, July 26, 1959 - December 9, 1987New York City, New YorkSeverely beaten/Massive blood clot: December 3, New York City Police OfficersEleanor Bumpers, August 22, 1918 - October 29, 1984The Bronx, New York City, New YorkShot: October 29, 1984, New York City Police OfficerMichael Jerome Stewart, May 9, 1958 - September 28, 1983New York City, New YorkBrutal Force: September 15, 1983, New York City Transit PoliceEula Mae Love, August 8, 1939 - January 3, 1979Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: January 3, 1979, Los Angeles County Police OfficersArthur Miller Jr., 1943 - June 14, 1978Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkChokehold/Strangled: June 14, 1978, New York City Police OfficersRandolph Evans, April 5, 1961 - November 25, 1976Brooklyn, New York City, New YorkShot in head: November 25, 1976, New York City Police OfficerBarry Gene Evans, August 29, 1958 - February 10, 1976Los Angeles, CaliforniaShot: February 10, 1976, Los Angeles Police OfficersRita Lloyd, November 2, 1956 - January 27, 1973New York City, New YorkShot: January 27, 1973, New York City Police OfficerHenry Dumas, July 20, 1934 - May 23, 1968Harlem, New York City, New YorkShot: May 23, 1968, New York City Transit Police Officer

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.

support for the creation of a now must figure out how to enact it. A prior nonpartisan analysis priced it at $400 billion per year — twice the state’s current budget. There appears to be no way to finance such a plan without staggering new taxes, making California a magnet for those with chronic illnesses just as its tax rates send younger, healthier Californians house-hunting in Nevada and big tech employers consider leaving the state.But Newsom is not alone. Other governors have made similar promises, and Newsom calls together the executives of the most ideologically like-minded states — Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland. What if they banded to create a sole unified single-payer health-care system, spreading risk around a much larger pool of potential patients while creating uniformity across some of the country’s wealthiest states?Fifteen end up forming an interstate compact, a well-established mechanism for working together, explicitly introduced in the Constitution. They sketch out the contours of a common health-care market: a unified single-payer regime with start-up costs funded in part by the largest issue ever to hit the municipal-bond market. The governors agree, as well, on a uniform payroll tax and a new tax on millionaires and corporations set to the same rate with revenues earmarked for health-care costs. The Trump administration has already proved willing to grant waivers to states looking to experiment beyond the Affordable Care Act’s standards — primarily for the benefit of those seeking to offer plans on their exchanges with skimpier coverage. But the states can’t act unilaterally: The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress must approve establishment of any compact claiming authority that previously resided with the federal government.Newsom pressures his friend House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi to introduce a bill that would give the compact all federal money that flows into its constituent states for health-care costs. Pelosi’s members from Arizona and Florida balk at the proposal, which they fear would enable their states’ Republican governors to gut Obamacare protections. But there are scores more from states looking to join the compact, and their governors marshal Democratic House delegations into a bloc. The bill passes the House, with the support of tea-party Republicans eager to strike a blow against federal power.When it reaches the Senate, the initiative comes from Republicans. In 2011, then–Texas governor Rick Perry championed a Health Care Compact Alliance, joined by eight other states seeking a “regulatory shield” against the Affordable Care Act and full control over their Medicare and Medicaid funds. By the time the Democratic bill passes the House, current Texas governor Greg Abbott has rallied more than 20 states, including North Carolina, Missouri, and Arizona, for a new version of the Health Care Compact. He also has the support of two prominent senators, Ted Cruz and Majority Whip John Cornyn. Republicans who had promised for nearly a decade to repeal and replace Obamacare can finally deliver on the promise — for 40 percent of the country.The president sees opportunity, too. While running for president, Donald Trump called himself “Mr. Brexit,” a boast tied to his apocryphal claim of having accurately predicted the British vote to leave the European Union. Now he’s convinced, thanks largely to a Fox & Friends chyron reading BIGGER THAN BREXIT?, that an even more significant world-historical accomplishment is within reach. Trump lobbies Pelosi and Mitch McConnell to combine their bills. Trump beams at the Rose Garden signing ceremony, calling it “the biggest deal ever” as he goads Pelosi and McConnell into an awkward handshake. Historians will later mark it as the first step in our nation’s slow breakup, the conscious uncoupling of these United States.Let’s just admit that this arranged marriage isn’t really working anymore, is it? The partisan dynamic in Washington may have changed, but our dysfunctional, codependent relationship is still the same. The midterm results have shown that Democrats have become even more a party of cities and upscale suburbs whose votes are inefficiently packed into dense geographies, Republicans one of exurbs and rural areas overrepresented in the Senate. The new Congress will be more ideologically divided than any before it, according to a scoring system developed by Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica: the Republicans more conservative, the Democrats more liberal.Come January, we are likely to find that we’ve simply shifted to another gear of a perpetual deadlock unlikely to satisfy either side. For the past eight years, there has been no movement toward goals with broad bipartisan support: to fund new infrastructure projects, or for basic gun-control measures like background checks or limits on bump stocks. Divided party control of Capitol Hill will make other advances even less likely. For the near future, the boldest policy proposals are likely to be rollbacks: Democrats angling to revert to a pre-Trump tax code, Republicans to repeal Obama’s health-care law. By December 7, Congress will have to pass spending bills to avoid a government shutdown. Next March looms another deadline to raise the debt ceiling.Meanwhile, we have discovered that too many of our good-governance guardrails, from avoidance of nepotism to transparency around candidates’ finances, have been affixed by adhesion to norms rather than force of law. The breadth and depth of the dysfunction has even Establishmentarian figures ready to concede that our current system of governance is fatally broken. Some have entertained radical process reforms that would have once been unthinkable. Prominent legal academics on both the left and the right have endorsed proposals to expand the Supreme Court or abolish lifetime tenure for its members, the latter of which has been embraced by Justice Stephen Breyer. Republican senators including Cruz and Mike Lee have pushed to end direct election of senators, which they say strengthens the federal government at the expense of states’ interests.Policy wonks across the spectrum are starting to rethink the federal compact altogether, allowing local governments to capture previously unforeseen responsibilities. Yuval Levin, a policy adviser close to both Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, wrote in 2016 that “the absence of easy answers is precisely a reason to empower a multiplicity of problem-solvers throughout our society, rather than hoping that one problem-solver in Washington gets it right.” In a recent book, The New Localism, center-left urbanists Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak exalt such local policy innovation specifically as a counterweight to the populism that now dominates national politics across the Americas and Europe.Even if they don’t use the term, states’ rights has become a cause for those on the left hoping to do more than the federal government will. Both Jacobin and The Nation have praised what the latter calls “Progressive Federalism.” San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera has called it “the New New Federalism,” a callback to Ronald Reagan’s first-term promise to reduce Washington’s influence over local government. “All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government,” Reagan said in his 1981 inaugural address. At the time, Democrats interpreted New Federalism as high-minded cover for a strategy of dismantling New Deal and Great Society programs. Now they see it as their last best hope for a just society.Some states have attempted to enforce their own citizenship policies, with a dozen permitting undocumented immigrants to acquire driver’s licenses and nearly twice as many to allow them to qualify for in-state tuition. Seven states, along with a slew of municipal governments, have adopted “sanctuary” policies of official noncooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Many governors, including Republicans in Massachusetts and Maryland, have refused to deploy National Guard troops to support Trump’s border policies, and California has sued the federal government to block construction of a wall along the Mexican frontier. After the Trump administration stopped defending an Obama-era Labor Department rule to expand the share of workers entitled to overtime pay, Washington State announced it would enforce its own version of the rule and advised its peers to do the same. “It is now up to states to fortify workers through strong overtime protections,” Washington governor Jay Inslee wrote last week.In California, officials who regularly boast of overseeing the world’s fifth-largest economy have begun to talk of advancing their own foreign policy. After Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Governor Jerry Brown — he has said “we are a separate nation in our own minds” — crossed the Pacific to negotiate a bilateral carbon-emissions pact with Chinese president Xi Jinping. “It’s true I didn’t come to Washington, I came to Beijing,” said Brown, who is often received like a head of state when he travels abroad. Around the same time, Brown promised a gathering of climate scientists that the federal government couldn’t entirely kill off their access to research data. “If Trump turns off the satellites,” he said, “California will launch its own damn satellite.”Brown’s successor Newsom comes to office just as Californians may be forced to reckon with how much farther they are willing to take this ethic of self-reliance. Since 2015, a group of California activists have been circulating petitions to give citizens a direct vote on whether they want to turn California into “a free, sovereign and independent country,” which could trigger a binding 2021 referendum on the question already being called “Calexit.”During the Obama years, it was conservatives who’d previously talked of states’ rights who began toying with the idea of starting their own countries. “We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dissolve it,” Rick Perry said at a tea-party rally in 2009, before adding: “But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that?” Perry’s lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst, met with members of the Texas Nationalist Movement on the opening day of a legislative session. Right after this year’s midterms, the would-be leaders of the breakaway republics of Texas and California met at a secessionist conference in Dallas.In 2012, the White House website received secession petitions from all 50 states; Texas’s was the most popular, with more than 125,000 signatures. (A counterpetition demanded that any citizen who signed one of the secession petitions be deported.) Two years later, Reuters found that nearly one-quarter of Americans said they supported the idea of their states breaking away, a position most popular among Republicans and rural westerners.Liberal regions have tended to go bigger with their secession fantasies: Why spin off one’s own state when you could split the whole country and gain the resources and manpower of like-minded compatriots? After John Kerry’s loss in the 2004 election, a homemade digital graphic migrated across the pre-social internet. On it, the states that had cast their electoral votes for Kerry were labeled “the United States of Canada”; George W. Bush’s became “Jesusland.” After Trump’s victory, those memes graduated into op-eds, including from others who would have to acquiesce in the fantasy. “Is it time for Canada to annex Blue America?” a columnist in the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s asked last year.The fact that anyone with Photoshop can cogently cleave the country in two is a credit to the hardening of a once-fluid political map. Over half the states have cast their Electoral College votes consistently for one party in every presidential election since 2000. In 2016, those states all picked Senate winners from the same party as their presidential picks as well. But as three British geographers concluded in a 2016 article about spatial polarization, that’s not just a feature of the Electoral College map. Whether measured by county, state, or region, the partisan divide has grown since Bill Clinton’s first election: Red places have grown redder (at least in their presidential votes), blue places bluer. In 1992, 38 percent of Americans lived in “landslide counties,” which went for a presidential candidate by a margin of 20 percentage points or more, the Times has reported; in 2016, the number reached 60 percent.This partisan homogeneity is shaping state governments too. Thirty-six capitals are now dominated by a single party that controls the governorship along with both houses of a legislature; for the first time in more than a century, only one state legislature in the country, Minnesota’s, will be split between two parties. If we are already living in two political geographies, why not generate a system of government to match?Or so goes the fantasy. There’s no real groundswell of support for shrinking the United States. Surveys have shown that two-thirds of Californians oppose independence, and not only because the Calexit movement’s lefty critiques of Trump do not align with its righty origins. (A co-founder of the California Independence Campaign, Louis Marinelli, is a former anti-gay-marriage activist who last year sought permanent residence in Russia.) When a candidate from the Alaskan Independence Party, which had been founded with secessionist ambitions, actually won the governorship in 1990, he turned out to be tepid on the question of sovereignty. (Sarah Palin once attended an AIP conference, and her husband, Todd, became a member.) Local movements elsewhere, whether the left-leaning Second Vermont Republic or South Carolina’s right-leaning Third Palmetto Republic, have never transcended stunt. Among institutions, only the Libertarian Party has ever endorsed the position that states should be freely able to secede.History gives us few examples of successful peaceful secessions. In the ones we do have, national identity rather than ideological differences seem to be at the root of the fissure. (The Confederate States of America would have been a notable anomaly.) When states split in the 20th century, the Australia-based scholars Peter Radan and Aleksandar Pavkovic have pointed out, there were always deep underlying fault lines of language, religion, or ethnicity. None of the three multinational states created between the two world wars — the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia — survived until the end of the 20th century.Even with widespread fatalism about the American project, there is not an obvious way to dissolve our union. Rewriting the Constitution’s balance of power would require levels of political coordination that seem far beyond the country’s existing leadership. Chances of a civil war are remote, and it is hard to visualize a series of events that could prompt a peaceable dissolution of the union. After the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled that states have no right to unilaterally secede. The U.N. Charter recognizes the “self-determination of peoples,” but clearly intends the latter to mean well-defined racial or ethnic groups and not, say, a collection of persons who want stronger gun-control measures. Other countries might be wary of recognizing spinoff American states for fear of the precedent. Would China vote to admit California to the United Nations if it set up Tibet or Taiwan to demand the same treatment?And yet, if the desire to secede were to grow, recent votes in Scotland and Quebec have modeled the way that secession in a developed country during years of peace can become just another political question — one debated relatively civilly, voted on democratically, without attendant allegations of treason or sedition. (Spain’s government has been less forgiving of what it calls an unconstitutional independence referendum held last year in Catalonia.)There is at least one mechanism by which a sort of soft breakup may be imaginable — and it’s already found within the Constitution. The document introduces the prospect of one state entering into a compact with another. States have created interstate compacts to maintain common standards, like the Driver’s License Compact that 47 DMVs use to exchange knowledge on traffic scofflaws. Most have been used for neighboring jurisdictions to handle common resources, like the Atlantic Salmon Compact that permits New England states to manage fish stocks in the Connecticut River Basin. (Eleven states have signed on to a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, to disregard the Electoral College, but it would require a number equal to 270 electoral votes to take effect.)Interstate compacts have rarely been applied to controversial topics. Yet to a paralyzed Congress, and a president without any deeply held views about state-federal relations, they could prove an appealing vehicle to restless factions on both the left and the right. It may be time to take the country apart and put it back together, into a shape that better aligns with the divergent, and increasingly irreconcilable, political preferences of its people — or at least to consider what such a future might look like, if for no other reason than to test our own resolve. An imagined trial separation, if you will. Or perhaps in contemplating a future apart we might stumble upon a few ideas for some new way to live together after all.So let’s return to our hypothetical spring of 2019. After Governor Newsom’s successful health-care deal, lobbyists and think tanks promote compacts for all their pet issues, and Congress — which would be unable to find bicameral majorities for any other substantive legislation — obliges. The Public Lands and Environmental Compact Act gives the states huge leeway to set environmental regulations and manage national parks on their lands, and the Labor and Workplace Compact Act permits states to draft new workplace and employment standards. There’s a Housing Compact Act, an Immigration Compact Act, and an Agriculture Compact Act, which allows the states to take all the money that would come to their citizens as farm subsidies and food stamps as block grants with the ability to set their own rules. Trump giddily signs them all.While the states could generate new partnerships for each policy area, they choose to harden their alliances. As they link their safety nets, the Newsom-led states agree to fully synchronize their tax codes so that they could end a race-to-the-bottom competition for residents and companies. Once they do, Nevada pulls out from the compact, unwilling to implement an income tax on its citizens. Washington, on the other hand, quickly amends its state constitution to permit an income tax for the first time.Seeking his own symbol of integration, Abbott unveils the new Free States Open-Carry Permit, along with new laws ensuring the right to bear arms in schools, churches, and government buildings across his alliance. Newsom and Abbott jointly lobby Congress to grant them the right to manage the Social Security funds generated by workers in their regions. Abbott wants to allow citizens to control their retirement portfolio, while Newsom wants to experiment with moving some trust-fund money from the Treasury bonds to new public-investment vehicles that will support climate-friendly technology.To kick off the Federation Era, the two governors meet on the steps of the United States Supreme Court for a photo op. Shaking hands, the men and their attorneys general pledge not to support any legal challenge to the other’s authority for two decades. All sides have an interest in permitting their new experiment to play out for a while without any unnecessary uncertainty from the courts. The states can’t stop others from suing over the constitutionality of their moves, but they want to send a message to a conservative Supreme Court that state officials are channeling the political will of 250 million Americans, all with Congress’s express consent.The most vocal opposition comes from fixtures of the Washington, D.C., Establishment and permanent bureaucracy, which fear a permanent loss of power. Both Fox News and MSNBC, on the other hand, herald the New Era of Good Feelings. For the first time ever, Gallup records three in four Americans declaring themselves satisfied with the way things are going in the United States — a supermajority that cuts across partisan and demographic divides.Over the first two decades of the Federation Era, the alliances remained relatively stable, with only occasional changes in state status. Virginia quit the Progressive Federation of America early because it felt it would lose leverage to defend the interests of the federal employees who live there. Montana nearly pulled out of the Alliance of Free States when it looked like it might be forced to abandon its closed-shop work rules to match its right-to-work sister states. Florida’s internal politics are driven by perpetual debate over whether the state stood to benefit by joining either federation; Alaska no longer has a Democratic Party and Republican Party but has entirely realigned along a Pro-Fed and Anti-Fed axis.The states that did not join a federation remained governed by Washington, where largely status-quo policies from the early-21st-century remain in place. Some are in the neutral zone, as it is known, owing to principled independent-mindedness (New Hampshire), some by ideological paralysis (Wisconsin), and some because they are happy setting their own rules (Delaware). Power, however, resides in the neutral zone. Since each of the two federations cast Electoral College votes as a bloc, by tacit understanding, any viable national candidate has to hail from the unaffiliated states. (After producing four in a row, Maine changed its official slogan to “Mother of Vice-Presidents.”) Yet with the Legislative and Executive branches largely hobbled from policy-making for much of the country, this offers minor satisfaction. It is said to be a bleak joke around the White House that the only job of the president in peacetime is to inquire daily about the health of the Supreme Court’s oldest member.By 2038, the Progressive Federation of America is being run from a former administrative building on the campus of the University of New Mexico. The federation was initially governed by commissioners appointed by governors and state legislatures. To avoid establishing a permanent bureaucracy, the governors refused to establish a dedicated base, instead rotating its chairmanship across the members for a year at a time. Lobbyists loved having the capital in San Francisco, were less enthused when New York decided it could boost the local economy by chairing its meetings in Buffalo.The abandoned campus in Albuquerque is an inadvertent monument to one of the Blue Fed’s earliest successes. The federation’s state universities initially integrated to secure basic economies of scope and scale: linking their library collections and banding together in search of greater buying power for their energy needs. After a few years, the states agreed to set in-Fed tuition for all public universities to zero. New Mexico took the boldest step. It dismantled its public-university system after determining it was more efficient to cover travel expenses for New Mexicans studying in California or Colorado than to manage its own schools, even continuing to pay lifetime salaries for its tenured professors when they were placed in jobs at new sister schools. The New Mexico regents decided to deplete the remainder of the university’s $450 million endowment to dramatically increase teacher pay for the state’s primary-school teachers. New Mexico’s public high schools are now seen as some of the country’s finest.At first, the task of the Federation commissioners was framed as simple technocracy, implementing the will of state governments. They strengthened regulations to protect workers and set a uniform $18 minimum wage across the zone, with some cost-of-living adjustments to raise the sum in New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Federation taxes have steadily risen as federal rates fell to cover its reduced obligations. Many wealthy Blue Fed residents now pay more in annual taxes to the federation than to Washington. The high-quality cradle-to-grave services those taxes fund have come to define existence across the Blue Fed, from guaranteed public preschool to lifelong medical coverage with no co-pays or deductibles, and have incubated a highly skilled workforce and some of the most impressive life-expectancy rates in the world. (Dental care continues to depend on a system of private insurance.) It was a source of pride when the Blue Fed’s generous higher-education system started drawing large numbers of middle-class families to leave southern cities for northern ones.As soon as one crosses the border into the Alliance of Free States, whether over the Wabash River from Illinois to Indiana, or the grasslands that stretch across the Iowa-Missouri border, the difference between the two federations’ sense of identity becomes immediately visible. A popular decal showing an outline of the Red Fed’s borders — with a column of prairie states rising like an extended middle finger from the clenched fist of Texas — resides on bumpers and car windows as a defiant declaration of a newly defined region’s honor.Over the first decade of its existence, Red Fed leaders found their purpose unwinding the domestic reforms of Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama and with them much of the 20th-century regulatory state. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration all saw their staffs gutted, left incapable of enforcing whatever rules did remain on the books. An alphabet soup of government agencies, Bill Kristol tweeted, had become a savory bone broth.The National Labor Relations Board withered in the Red Fed, along with New Deal rules that blocked companies from interfering in employee efforts to win collective-bargaining power. The shift set off a return to the fierce business-labor battles of the Gilded Age, most visible in the emergence of new firms founded by Blackwater and Black Cube alumni, known as the Blackertons, that specialize in aggressive digital surveillance and online-misinformation campaigns against union organizers.The effective elimination of most environmental and employment regulations proved irresistible to manufacturers. Boeing announced it would stop making capital investments in its Seattle-area factory and begin to shift jet assembly to a new plant in Covington, Kentucky. Factories relocated from China to be closer to the American consumer market and avoid import tariffs. Unemployment in parts of the Red Fed fell below 2 percent and the region briefly reached 5 percent growth — each several times better than Blue Fed indicators — leading conservative economists to praise the Red Miracle.It was not just manufacturing and resource extraction that boomed in the Red Fed. As soon as the Blue Fed established its single-payer system, medical specialists began taking their practices to states where they wouldn’t be subject to the Regional Health Service’s price controls or rationing. Sloan Kettering now treats New York as little more than an administrative base; the majority of its hospital rooms are in Texas. Johns Hopkins considered closing its medical school when nearly half the faculty decamped en masse to Baylor. Wealthy Blue Fed residents willing to pay out of pocket now invariably travel to Houston when they want an immediate appointment with a specialist of their choice. The arrivals area at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport is packed with chauffeurs from van services run by clinics supported by specializing in such medical tourism.Auctions of public lands across the interior west, along with the privatization of the Tennessee Valley Authority, generated a quick gusher of cash. Vowing not to let the new government wealth create more bureaucracy, Red Fed leaders deposited it all in a Free States Energy Trust Fund that would pay out an annual dividend to every adult and child in the region — a no-strings-attached cash transfer of hundreds of dollars per year. The Southern Baptist Convention encouraged its members to tithe their dividend checks directly into new aid societies to help the least fortunate. The most popular charitable cause has been a relief society to aid religious conservatives in the Blue Fed seeking to migrate to the Red Fed.The boom in manufacturing and energy jobs on one side of the border and the guarantee of free government-sponsored education and medical care on the other created an incentive for families to split — with one spouse working (and paying taxes) in the Red Fed and the other, usually with children in tow, collecting benefits in the Blue Fed. (Remo, which pitched its app to investors as “Venmo for remittances,” became the fastest-growing tech company on the Fortune 500.) Sociologists are starting to worry that what they call the “split-family phenomenon” will become a hallmark of 21st-century life in North America, with its effects growing more pronounced as federation policies continue to diverge.Reaction to Blue Fed culture drives much Red Fed governance. When the Blue Fed opened a gleaming new visitor center at Yosemite, the Red Fed moved to privatize all the concessions at Yellowstone. The Blue Fed’s expansive affirmative-action protocols inspired the Red Fed to abolish all HBCU-specific education programs so that primarily white institutions could compete equally for the funds. After Illinois led a Blue Fed initiative to upgrade its rail service, the Red Fed ended all cooperation with Amtrak, even adjusting gauge size along the Mississippi River to prevent passage of passenger trains from one side to another. As a backlash to the Blue Fed’s net-neutrality rule, the Red Fed imposed the Online Fairness Doctrine, which permits internet providers to slow upload and download speeds for content they determined was in violation of “community standards” or that offends a company’s religious beliefs. Across large swaths of the Red Fed, the only way to log into Grindr is via VPN.These culture-war skirmishes instilled a strong sense of Red Fed identity, and the economy was doing so well that few noticed the slow exodus of tech entrepreneurs and high-skilled creative professionals who had once clustered in Austin and North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Only when the Supreme Court ruled that a compact-wide abortion ban did not place an undue burden on reproductive freedom because Red Fed residents could travel for free services in the Blue Fed did it become evident that conservative social policy would impede efforts to diversify the Red Fed economy beyond natural resources and heavy manufacturing. Amazon’s list of candidate cities to house its HQ14 did not include a single one in the Red Fed.Each federation is the other’s largest trading partner, but they increasingly assume the posture of rivals. When the Blue Fed imposed a controversial excise tax on all products or services generated by companies that could not prove they paid their employees at least $18 per hour, the Red Fed saw it as a de facto tariff on its goods. It retaliated by placing its own excise tax on domestic wine, which led the Red Fed to deepen its trade ties with Chile and Argentina. That was a short-term diversion, but prompted a deeper examination of how economically dependent one federation had grown on the other’s internal policies. A Blue Fed requirement that certain freight classes travel only by all-electric truck fleets had nearly doubled the cost of transporting products to the interior west. Frequent work stoppages by West Coast longshoremen emboldened by their labor-friendly administration affirmed a strategy agreed to by titans of Red Fed industry: They needed their own Pacific port.Red Fed leaders negotiated a deal with Mexican authorities for operating control of the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas, in Michoacán state, investing some of its energy trust funds. A new terminal, staffed by American Customs officials, connects directly with a spur of the Kansas City Southern railroad. There, nonunion laborers load ships with minerals mined through the American West, including lithium and soda ash, heading largely to East Asia, and unload bananas and smartphones from Ecuador and China heading for the landlocked states of the Red Fed without ever once passing through Blue Fed territory.And then came the first humanitarian crisis. When the families of West Virginia workers started overloading schools and hospitals across the border in Hagerstown, Maryland, the Blue Fed began to impose residence requirements for many of its social services. That didn’t stop the migrants, but it led them to cluster in border towns as they waited out the six months required for eligibility. The conditions were often dire. Tent cities around Palm Springs saw the first American measles outbreak in a generation, and in the Spokane bidonvilles, dozens of children froze to death during a harsh winter.Those tragedies set off a reckoning that has prompted an identity crisis for the Blue Fed’s leaders and citizens. On one side, fiscal experts say the Nordic-style welfare state that the Blue Fed has established is unsustainable if it just ends up as an unchecked provider of services to some of the Red Fed’s neediest cases. On the other side, some of the progressive activists who played crucial roles building early support for the health-care compact argue that the Blue Fed has an obligation to promote its values even beyond its borders. The debate rages across the region: What obligation do they have to other Americans who have democratically chosen to pursue a very different way of life?The federations had a gentlemen’s agreement not to drag federal authorities into their disagreements, but the nature of their conflicts made that impossible. Once the Blue Fed declared itself a “sanctuary region” and invited undocumented immigrants elsewhere in the United States to seek refuge, Red Fed leaders threatened to erect internal border controls on state lines. The Blue Fed backed down, publicly revoking its invitation, but only after the Red Fed agreed to jointly lobby Congress to create a series of regionally restricted work visas.The federal government remains the enforcer of the country’s citizenship laws, agent of its foreign affairs, controller of its national defense, and manager of its monetary policy. But it grew increasingly impossible to perform any of those roles neutrally, and many of the country’s democratic institutions were not designed to balance the competing interests of two geopolitical rivals.When the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to stop the Red Fed’s economy from overheating, it pushed the rest of the country into recession, prompting the Great Lakes to lead the first successful campaign to have the Federal Reserve Board removed from office. When Hurricane Rigoberto came through the Gulf of Mexico, leaving large portions of Houston underwater for months — the first trillion-dollar natural disaster, at least when the cost of the subsequent malaria outbreak is included — the Red Fed demanded a bailout from the federal government. Blue Fed politicians said it would be “moral hazard” to do so, given that most of the damage was traced to a Red Fed decision to privatize the Houston Ship Channel and entrust the buyer, a Qatari sovereign-wealth fund, with upkeep of the Galveston Seawall and the levee networks of surrounding southeastern Texas counties.The Pentagon lost its authority to act as a nonaligned arbiter of the national interest. Once cartels seized control of the Red Fed’s Mexican container port, taking hostage 17 retired Texas Rangers working on a private security force, the Defense secretary mobilized West Coast National Guard units to support an Army Rapid Deployment Force, along with Marines and Navy seals. Oregon’s governor balked, announcing that he would not permit his troops to “be used as muscle for the Red Fed’s imperial adventures.” The Supreme Court ruled that National Guard units had to follow the commander-in-chief’s orders, and the Oregon guardsmen headed south, but the incident polarized foreign-policy positions in new ways. When, months later, intelligence agencies issued a report pinning the crash of the western renewable-energy grid on a North Korean cyberattack, Red Fed cities saw some of their largest mass protests in years, all against a rush to war. Nearly 100,000 people gathered in Indianapolis’s Monument Circle, chanting “No blood for solar.” By the time of the South China Sea Crisis, Congress had grown so paralyzed along federation lines that it was impossible to assemble a majority in favor of any declaration of war.Leaders overseas have become eager to exploit what they see as the United States’s political weakness. As concerns about climate change have grown more dire, other countries have become intent on punishing dissenters from the international order, and the Red Fed is now a global villain. The European Union agreed to pre-clear for entry all crops produced under the Blue Fed’s GMO-free agriculture policy, while Red Fed imports are subjected to a lengthy and costly quarantine. China announced most-favored-region trade policies that would give Blue Fed exporters an advantage over domestic rivals when selling into the Chinese market.These trade-related conflicts squeeze Illinois, which wants to export Caterpillar tractors to China under favorable conditions but lags behind West Coast and New England states in transitioning to GMO-free agriculture. Although a founding member of the Blue Fed, Illinois at times felt geographically isolated, surrounded by Red Fed or neutral states. Illinois withdrew from the Blue Fed and helped to form the Great Lakes Federation, which stretches from Philadelphia to Des Moines and up to Duluth, with a permanent capital in Chicago. As the 20-year judicial truce is about to expire, the Midwest controls the balance of power in a Congress that may be forced by the Supreme Court to revisit some of its earliest assumptions about returning power to the states.There is another real-life contemporary example of a semi-secession: Brexit. It, too, began as little more than a thought experiment. What if we could reject a far-off governing structure that no longer seems responsive to our interests in favor of local authority that can more closely match our aspirations and sense of identity as a people? There must have been something thrilling about getting to cast a vote for self-determination.Yet those who are now forced to make that reverie real are pulling back from their former self-confidence about it. Just last week, the Tory official serving as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union admitted he “hadn’t quite understood the full extent” to which British commerce was “particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing,” and that new trade barriers could impact the availability of consumer goods in stores. Instead of just leaving Europe, as he encouraged his compatriots to do during the 2016 campaign, Dominic Raab now insists on “a bespoke arrangement on goods which recognizes the peculiar, frankly, geographic, economic entity that is the United Kingdom.”As it was for a majority of Britons, it is easier to imagine breaking up the United States than figuring out how to make it work — whether through bold new policies or merely a functioning version of consensus politics. The seeming inelasticity of our system of governance also guarantees a security and predictability that we take for granted. Some of the lessons Europe is being taught under the stress of the Brexit crisis — that a single currency requires a unified economy, or that a lack of internal borders can’t work if no one can agree on what should happen at the outer one — are ones Americans might better learn from fantasy than from experience.