The American It Crowd

[Maureen Quartaro]

Whileclassified as non-lethal, they are not non-blinding. These life-altering eye injuries are a common result of urban warfare, rioting and crowd dispersion. We have seen it around the world, and we now see it in the United States.

Following numerous serious injuries in the past two weeks, the American Academy of Ophthalmology calls on domestic law enforcement officials to immediately end the use of rubber bullets to control or disperse crowds of protesters. The Academy asks physicians, public health officials and the public to condemn this practice.

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Crowd-related injuries and deaths are startlingly common both in the United States and worldwide. They occur in a wide range of situations and at a vast array of venues: at music concerts, sporting events, retail holiday sales, in and around airports, subway plaorms, and parking lots, among other locations. These "crowd crush" incidents, however, are extremely underreported and rarely litigated, masking the seriousness of this issue and making it difficult for the few victims who pursue legal recourse to recover damages. Given that there is virtually no statutory law in the United States pertaining to crowd management and control, crowd crush cases are based entirely in common law, most often in the law of negligence. Unfortunately, courts have consistently made a number of analytical errors in these cases, creating a line of jurisprudence that is both scientifically and legally problematic and that reduces incentives for venue owners and event managers to take steps to reduce the likelihood of future crowd injuries. In this paper, I (a) identify the most signiicant of these errors, (b) explain why they contravene crowd science, and (c) make a series of recommendations designed to bring crowd crush jurisprudence in line with modern science and to level the playing field between plaintiffs and defendants in these cases.

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Yesterday i was at my friends place and we watched Football match between Schalke and Pauli. The fans had way more energy and some of them launched fireworks in the arena. After Schalke won half the stadium literally stormed the field. Why is America so boring compared to that?

Game 7 is like championship/elminitation point, and if the game is very back and forth and close, crowds get pretty active. You should see Kawhi's game winner against Philadelphia.

But other than that, earlier games can get pretty active if a worse team is beating a better team or if players get chippy against each other.

True. I think its because NA sports are like shows. Constant planned content and stuff like opening, ads, kiss cams, chants that are shown on screen etc. While for example Football in EU is all about the stuff itself and crowd with passion are just adding their own stuff.

Because America is the land of the individual, at least more so than anywhere else in the world. In Europe, your local team is part of your life! Like, supporting your team becomes a weekend hobby. American sports have short seasons, lots of ads/ breaks in play, and no away fans.

OFC teams in NA have fans, but the fan culture is not there. You see this in VCT when they cut to watch parties for teams like Kru and Zeta, these teams have little history but the people support them how they support their football teams. Compare to NA watchparties... well I haven't seen any in valo yet, at least in VCT.

I can already see the downfrags raining in, but US sports is a capitalist product, not more not less. Everything feels so fake and tailored towards making as much profit as possible. Not saying that sports elsewhere aren't profit oriented or that there are no passionate fans in US sports, just saying that I feel like it's more extreme in America than anywhere else. The passion & dedication you see from european football fans is insane, I don't see that level of excitement from americans, the fan culture just isn't there imo...

I've heard of Taya Kyle. I saw her book, "American Wife," at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Everyone who saw the film "American Sniper," based on the book by her late husband, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, saw a portrayal of part of her life, too.

The stage was close to the crowd, which was mostly white and dressed in American flag apparel. There were even a few Make America Great Again hats scattered around the audience full of Alex Jones clones with a few Kellyannes sprinkled among them. Again, clearly not my crowd.

Taya Kyle was exceptionally skilled at explaining how to endure a tough loss, and how to share an experience like hers with others and use that journey to empower yourself and others, and even learn to love again. That's what I try to do on the road in front of different audiences almost every week, too.

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Some six years ago Gordon Wood closed a brief discussion of mobs in the American Revolution by asking whether, if the mob was no less a mob than its European counterpart, the revolution was any less a revolution. Three recent full-length studies, Pauline Maier's From Resistance to Revolution, Richard D. Brown's Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts and Patricia U. Bonomi's A Factious People, deal in significant part with mob, or, as I will call it, crowd activity in early America, although in none of them does it form the main subject. The approach to it of all three is fresh and sophisticated but, as the clich goes, they raise as many questions as they answer. This essay will look first at the questions they answer and then go on to the ones they raise.

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Following the end of the French and Indian War, Great Britain began to levy taxes on her colonies to defray the cost of the expensive war. However, colonies who had been in charge of taxing themselves began to openly resist Great Britain. Decades of self-rule and benign neglect had many colonists feeling their liberty was being stripped away by their mother country. Boston was the home to some of the most radical opponents and largest protests. In an attempt to use an excessive amount of force to crack down on these upstart colonials, Great Britain passed the Townshend Acts in 1767 and dispatched the British Army to restore order in Boston. On October 1, 1768, the British fleet arrived, and hundreds of British soldiers marched into the hostile city.

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