Massive increase in Black Americans murdered was result of defund police movement: experts
Black Americans saw a greater spike in murders in 2020 compared to years prior, and at a higher rate than the national increase.
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Black Americans saw a greater spike in murders in 2020 compared to years prior, and at a higher rate than the national increase.
The number of black Americans murdered in 2020 jumped by 32 percent – with an expert blaming BLM protests for the huge spike by scaring-off cops. Killings across racial demographic have swelled by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, the largest increase since 1905, but blacks have borne the larger impact of that deadly trend,| USSA News
Black americans. criminal justice experts say at least one of the factors in the surge is the defund the police movement. a top priority of the far left. mike tobin follows up on that in chicago. what did you find? >> experts say you can connect the dots when you see one of these high-profile police-involved death and a rise in crime. you can connect the dots to what the st. louis police chief first called the ferguson effect. police pulled back. reluctant to get involved. criminals get away with small crimes and progress to bigger ones. black people pay the highest price. the year that mike b...
The murder rate for African-Americans in the U.S. jumped 32 percent, a deadly trend that experts pin on police pulling back from minority communities because the Black Lives Matter movement
The Black Lives Matter organization did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on 2020's murder spike among Black Americans and experts pointing to BLM and defund the police movements for contributing.