Insofar as competing frames vie for both attention and approval, we suspect that online social movements will not only be responsive to attention-grabbing events such as police shootings and protests, but also attempt to incorporate those events within an enduring and compelling narrative. In the ...
Black Lives Matter, a global political movement. Founded in 2013 by organizers Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, the #Black Lives Matter movement (the hash tag was dropped after 2014) was inspired by the acquittals of several police officers involved in shootings of unarmed Africa...
In each of the three years since, the number of police killings has risen, from 1,050 in 2021 to 1,161 in 2023. There have been 730 so far this year; if that pace is sustained, 2024 will be the deadliest year for police shootings on record. And if its racial...
Of late, Black people in the United States, especially Black males have been encountering blatant police harassments, brutalities, shootings, and killings. These actions have led to the question, "Do Black lives matter?" Of course, they do! It is no surprise that an organization, "Black ...
More whites are killed then blacks by cops “In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, ...
Sam Sinyangwe, cofounder of We the Protestors, explained, “If you look at the 30 largest cities, police shootings have dropped about 30 percent, and some cities have seen larger drops. In some of these cities, like Chicago and Los Angeles, activists with Black Lives Matter and other grou...
Families of victims of police and racially motivated shootings did not join the President at the podium in the Rose Garden Tuesday because of a “mutual decision” between them and the White House, an administration official said. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Ja’Ron Sm...
But if anybody thought police would be deterred by that apparent exception to the rule of holding police accountable for killing Black people, they should think again as it has been a quick resumption of law enforcement normalcy with continued shootings of Black men and boys with impunity since...
Black Lives Matter started with a hashtag. Now it is a rallying cry, a cause and a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at the hands of police. The latest police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have spurred a new round of protests across the country and wor...
State-level racial threat variables are largely nonsignificant, but states with more fatal police shootings are less likely to oppose BLM, while states where the Republican candidate won a greater percentage of the vote in the 2012 presidential election are more likely to oppose BLM....