Tomorrow marks one year since police killed George Floyd.
Just in 2021 alone, police have killed 414 people.
So you tell me, how much progress have we made? 🧵
In 2020, police killed 1,127 people.
Black people made up 28% of these cases, despite being only 13% of the population. 2/14
Officers were charged with a crime in only 16 of these 1,127 cases. 3/14
Police are on track to kill as many people this year as they did last year. 4/14
Police kill Black people the most. 5/14
From 2013-2020, Chicago police killed Black people at 22x the rate of white people.
Read that again. 6/14
Police kill people everywhere, not only in urban centers. 7/14
Police kill people almost every day of the year.
Literally. 8/14
People who police kill are not bad people. 9/14
Most police killings start with traffic stops and mental health checks.
Yes, you read correctly: mental health checks. 10/14
Police kill people and get away with it.
But you know this already. 11/14
Police kill people in every state. No state is exempt. 12/14
Permissive gun laws and police shootings go hand in hand. 13/14
Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and an additional $80 billion on incarceration.
Defund the police.
Invest in communities.
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