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Bryan Leyva, MD⚕️

24 May, 15 tweets, 4 min read

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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Did you know that at 3 mo, babies look more at faces that match the race of their caregivers? That children as young as 2 use race to make sense of people’s behaviors? That by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates? 🧵

2/6 Did you know that expressions of racism often peak at age 4 and 5? And that by age 5, Black and Latinx children show no preference toward their own racial/ethnic groups, whereas white children at this age remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness?

3/6 Did you know that talking to kids about race and interracial friendships can improve their racial attitudes in as little as a single week?

No, no you probably didn’t. And neither did I and I’m a pediatrician. I didn’t know until I explicitly looked it up bc it’s important.

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