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arugula2 wrote:

felltoearth wrote:I’d appreciate a source for this as I would love to use this stat.

Erica Chenoweth (Harvard) & Jeremy Pressman (U.Conn). Summary of their study here, which looked at

...data from May to June [2020], having already documented 7,305 events in thousands of towns and cities in all 50 states and D.C., involving millions of attendees

...and concluded that

Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism. Some portion of these involved neither police nor protesters, but people engaging in vandalism or looting alongside the protests.

In short, our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.

They define terms & participants in the in-between paragraphs.