This tag was created by Anonymous. The last update was by Stephen Robertson.
Charged with disorderly conduct
The large number of those arrested who were ultimately prosecuted for disorderly conduct made clear the indiscriminate nature of the police response. The smallest proportion of those arrested for looting faced that lesser charge (12 of 50, 20%) compared with those arrested for breaking windows (11 of 20, 55%) and assault (8 of 13, 62%) — although given that the basis for the arrest of sixteen of those charged with disorderly conduct (32%) is unknown, that pattern has to be be considered uncertain. Note, the tags below identify only the cases where the charge recorded in the docket book was disorderly conduct. There were additional cases where the initial charge was reduced to disorderly conduct during the legal process.