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William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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2021

Freedom of Assembly

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Breathing Room For The Right Of Assembly, Tabatha Abu El-Haj Oct 2021

Breathing Room For The Right Of Assembly, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

This Article explores the legal and political fault lines that the wave of protests highlighting police violence and systemic racism in the summer of 2020 reveal. It focuses in depth on Detroit, Michigan, as a window into the ways that the First Amendment, as currently construed, under-protects those seeking political change and racial reckoning by demonstrating in the streets.