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Amid increased police brutality, Black Lives Matter changes tactics
Photo by Ella Police have shot and killed 23 unarmed people already this year. If that rate continues, the death toll will be higher than last year's total of 48. In both years, about a third of those shot have been black. In the past, the loose coalition called Black Lives Matter has staged street protests after such incidents — but in the…
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPhoto by Ella
Police have shot and killed 23 unarmed people already this year. If that rate continues, the death toll will be higher than last year's total of 48. In both years, about a third of those shot have been black. In the past, the loose coalition called Black Lives Matter has staged street protests after such incidents — but in the era of Donald Trump, its tactics are changing.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Yael Even Or
Producer, 'Press Play'
Sáša Woodruff
Producer, 'To the Point'
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Peniel Joseph
historian and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of the school’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
Patrisse Cullors
Black Lives Matter
Serena Sebring
Southerners on New Ground
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