The Board of Immigration Appeals has determined the acquiescence standard for CAT protection differs from the unable-or-unwilling standard for asylum and withholding of removal; the potential for private actor violence coupled with a speculation that police cannot or will not help is insufficient to prove acquiescence.

The full text of Matter of M-S-I-I can be found here:

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1400351/dl?inline

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