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The immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd saw a dramatic increase in violent crime across the country. But the political movement Floyd's death spawned
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
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.