The Whitest States in America Have the Lowest Numbers of Police Killings but Their Black Citizens Would Never Know It.

Data by Mapping Police Violence further confirms that police violence is race specific to geography, and that the whitest states have the least amount of police killings, unless you're Black.

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In the aftermath of the recent police killing of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man living in Minneapolis, I’ve been thinking about how state-sanctioned violence against Black people often migrates in similar patterns. Minnesota’s Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) and surrounding areas have been the de…