Some prosecutors and law enforcement observers say departments carried out mass arrests as crowd control tactic

The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped, dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.

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