Murders of Black Americans Surged in 2020 Amid ‘Defund the Police’ Movement
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:53 pm
The year 2020 saw a 32 percent increase in the number of black Americans murdered compared to the previous year. Some experts say the spike was caused by the Black Lives Matter movement and efforts to defund the police in the wake of the killing of George Floyd the same year. According to the data from the FBI, the United States in 2020 recorded the largest one-year increase in the number of murders since national records started being kept in the 1960s. The number of homicides year-on-year jumped 29.4 percent. Black Americans have borne the brunt of the increase. In 2020, 9,941 black or African Americans were murdered, compared with 7,484 the year earlier. The number of black victims jumped nearly 32 percent. ...
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