Most charges against George Floyd protesters dropped, analysis shows

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/george-floyd-protesters-charges-citations-analysis

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

In most instances, Detroit officers who wrote tickets were not at the protests and didn’t actually witness the alleged crimes, said the National Lawyers Guild and Detroit Justice Center attorney Rubina Mustafa. Instead of continuing to attempt to prosecute with shoddy evidence, the city earlier this year dropped nearly 300 more citations, but has still pursued dozens of charges against protest organizers. All told, 93% of Detroit cases have been dropped.