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cinematicdiversions

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8. The numbers.

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 01:29 PM

Nov 2021

716 civilians having been shot by police, 111 of whom were Black, as of October 2021.

The increase in murders of African American men this year dwarfs that 111 number.

But you are correct it may be less than a 11,100 increase.

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