Article from the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/hundreds-of-police-officers-in-st-louis-chant-after-breaking-up-protests?CMP=fb_gu
Category: Black lives matter
Black men are 20% more likely to be pulled over, 3 times more likely to have police use force on them and 3 times more likely to die at the hands of police.
Black men nearly 3 times as likely to die from police use of force, study says http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/20/health/black-men-killed-by-police/index.html Police 3 times more likely to use force on blacks than whites, study shows http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/health/police-use-of-force-on-blacks/index.html Fast forward to 1 minute in.... https://youtu.be/1eQINR0u7xo https://youtu.be/xQWe4MK_8Xo
Black Children in U.S. Are Nearly Four Times More Likely to Live in Poverty than White Children, Study Finds
38.3 percent of black children live in poverty. 10.7 percent of white children live in poverty. Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/us/black-children-poverty-pew-research-center.html
NEW YORK TIMES: Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Eight Times More Likely to Be Ruled ‘Justifiable’
"When a white person kills a black man in America, the killer often faces no legal consequences. In one in six of these killings, there is no criminal sanction, according to a new Marshall Project examination of 400,000 homicides committed by civilians between 1980 and 2014. That rate is far higher than ones for …
