State-Sanctioned Genocide by the Numbers

The Washington Post has been tracking fatal officer-involved shootings since January 1, 2015. The data reaffirms specific violence enacted on Black Americans.

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The United States is the home of the deadliest police culture in the modern industrialized world. That is not hyperbolic. That is not a figment of my imagination. That is a data-supported fact. American police have killed over a thousand citizens per year at a minimum since there has been a system of aggregated data to …