For our new @PENamerica report, I analyzed over 116 legislative bills which have been introduced since 2015 -- this is mostly in states that have seen mass protests. Anti-protest legislation often follows protests, esp those led by BIPOC. #AMA about the assault on protest rights.

Read more about what we found in our new report. More than a third of states have tried to criminalize protests challenging systemic inequities & voicing dissent from marginalized groups. We must fight against this one-sided attack on the First Amendment: https://pen.org/arresting-dissent/

Minnesota has been a "leader" in introducing anti-protest bills, many of these bills introduced after protests in #Minneapolis -- my heart is heavy knowing how legislators introduce bills to redefine protest as criminal as a way of silencing & threatening marginalized voices.