What are the statistics behind the Black Lives Matter movement?

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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I wonder if the FBI even included deaths-by-police in these statistics.

Who knows. What blows my mind is the FBI didn't even keep these statistics about police killings, at all! They were like deliberately ignoring and not gathering info on the situation even though that's like their whole job. So random 3rd parties have to compile news articles to figure out the truth

[–]hennaojichan[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So this table needs two more bars: blacks killed by police and whites killed by police. But then, as you said, the data is not available.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's available from 3rd parties.

But the reality is an American is 50x more likely to be killed by a cop than a European is. And if you're black American, put another 2.5x on top of the 50x. So the 2.5x is a problem, which BLM focuses on, but I worry about the 50x more personally, because it affects all Americans

[–]comments 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

an American is 50x more likely to be killed by a cop than a European

how about compared to countries with similar demographics?