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UC researchers study why protests turn violent
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Aug 25, 2014
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UC researchers study why protests turn violent
Nick Adams, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, talks about his research into clashes between police and protestors during the Occupy movement.
Police arrest a demonstrator protesting the killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
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Nick Adams, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, talks about his research into clashes between police and protestors during the Occupy movement.

The violent clashes between protestors and police in the days following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri have raised questions about why some demonstrations turn violent and others don't.

Nick Adams, a sociologist and fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of Data Science, is leading a team of researchers looking into thousands of Occupy movement protests to find out how and why interactions between police and protestors turn violent.