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Old 10-20-2015, 06:13 AM   #3
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Yes, it appears to me we are hearing more about these deaths. I believe it is less about it happening more often and more about people speaking up.

Currently I follow Shaun King on FB and twitter, along with several others that are part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Almost daily they are posting of yet another person dying at the hands of the police, or injured during what appears to be trumped up arrests, or stories of people in jail for months (sometimes years) without having been charged with a crime, people being arrested for legally protesting these deaths, etc.

The killing of police officers is down while the deaths by police are way up, with a wildly disproportionate number of those deaths being people of color.

How can anyone view the video of Tamir Rice, a child playing in the park and shot by a cop within 3 seconds of arriving, and believe this is "reasonable"?

Thank you for starting this conversation, Nat.
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