ASU professor hit by pepper balls at Trump rally protests

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Ed Maguire is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University who studies the use of violence against police in protests. He and a team of PhD students were observing the protest following President Trump’s rally in Phoenix for research purposes and Maguire was hit in the face and abdomen by pepper balls. Maguire, who has studied the use of violence against police in protests in Ferguson, Missouri and in Washington, D.C., will tell us more about that topic.

Ed Maguire, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University

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