This is the 457th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), surpassing the total episode count of Law & Order (1990) which ran for 456 episodes from 1990 to 2010.
The televised incident between Nayla and the two young students wearing red hats is a clear allusion to the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation during which two students from a Catholic school were believed to be unrespectful towards a Native American activist sparkling national outrage, before it was revealed with a longer video that the young boys actually did nothing wrong.