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WP:NOTNEWS concerns[edit]

There is some serious trimming to be done in this article to comply with WP:NOTNEWS. We shouldn't be listing every rally with 20 people. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Every rally onthe list is backed up with reliable citations. I do think its' worth considering a conversion to a sortable wikitable list like they did here with March for Our Lives. Kire1975 (talk) 21:58, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A list might be good. GorillaWarfare, I saw you just edited this page — any thoughts? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:40, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No strong opinion, I just landed here because I was working on COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit[edit]

Could we please have a comma before the last word in "Beginning in mid-March various"? 68.197.116.79 (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CustodianOfClara (talk) 06:10, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article is not NPOV[edit]

At a certain point the Wikipedia article states that people were dancing in blackface on the capital. Source of the claim is from BET, which shows a video of two white women dancing, one of them wearing a mask of Donald Trump the other of Barack Obama. Wearing a mask of a president who is African American is very different than wearing dark makeup in order to look black, as the common definition of "dressed in blackface" entails. I will now delete this line for being biased and misleading. If you disagree I would like to hear your thoughts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CustodianOfClara (talk • contribs) 05:56, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Changing Title to be more in-line with "Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic"[edit]

While the protests are generally over lockdowns, given the scale of the conflict and the number of issues not directly related to the lockdown being protested (trust in official numbers, protests over aspects of responses like level of preparedness and nursing home deaths)^[1] the title should be changed to "2020 United States Protests to Covid-19 Response" or something to that effect.

References

^ Shahrigian, Ellen Moynihan, Shant. "Protesters demand Cuomo apology over COVID deaths in nursing homes". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Support - Just added a "burn the mask" event in Idaho. No mention of lockdowns in the article but there is no other place for it than here. Kire1975 (talk) 07:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan section[edit]

Content fails to note the significant order of events involving Trump's "liberate Michigan" tweet and the subsequent storming of the Capitol several weeks later. An accurate chronology appears in the article Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, which I've copied below for parity. Viriditas (talk) 00:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

President Donald Trump offered his support for the protests, derisively calling Whitmer "that woman from Michigan" and tweeting on April 17: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" Two weeks later, on April 30, armed protesters stormed the Michigan State Capitol.

North Carolina protest arrest[edit]

The first arrest was April 14th, 2020. News of the first reopen protester arrested, Monica Ussery, went national because North Carolina Raleigh police tweeted and posted on FB that "protesting is not an essential activity". Litigation in that case is still ongoing. There were false news reports, bodycam footage was withheld for two years, there was an investigation conducted through RPD internal affairs, a badged officer was accused of committing perjury, and a civil suit has dropped. I don't wish to create edits myself, but ple ease feel free to contact regarding these updates. at Artistmimifabian (talk) 21:37, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Shahrigian, Ellen Moynihan, Shant. "Protesters demand Cuomo apology over COVID deaths in nursing homes". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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