About Eras
Abolitionism & the Slave Power (1850–1861)
The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
The First Red Scare (1917–1920)
World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
McCarthyism (1947–1957)
COINTELPRO (1956–1971)
The Vietnam War Era (1964–1975)
The American Indian Movement & Wounded Knee (1973–1977)
The Reagan Era (1981–1989)
The Anti-Globalization Movement (1999–2001)
The War on Terror (2001–)
The Green Scare (2005–2010)
Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
Ferguson & the Movement for Black Lives (2014–2016)
Standing Rock & the #NoDAPL Water Protectors (2016–2017)
J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
The Stop Cop City Era (2022–)
The Trump-Era Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity (2024–)
Civil Rights & Black Power
About J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
The Kettle at 12th & L (January 20, 2017)
The Felony Riot Indictments (2017)
The First Trial & the Acquittals (2017)
The Collapse of the Prosecution (2018)
J20: THE INAUGURATION DAY PROSECUTIONS (2017)
Police mass-arrested some 230 people during protests at Donald Trump's first inauguration and charged them collectively with felony rioting that carried decades in prison. The prosecution collapsed in 2018 after the first juries acquitted every defendant and a judge sanctioned prosecutors for withholding evidence — but the case helped establish the sweeping conspiracy-charging template later used against Stop Cop City and George Floyd defendants.