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Did #blacklivesmatter protests save lives?

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Did #blacklivesmatter protests save lives?

11 March 2021
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What impact did the amazing #blacklivesmatter protests have in 2020? A new study suggests the demonstrations resulted in the decline of killings of people by the police.

According to a story on Portside, since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.

Last year, spurred by a Minneapolis police officer’s killing of George Floyd, millions of people demonstrated in hundreds of BLM protests throughout the U.S.

“Black Lives Matter represents a trend that goes beyond the decentralization that existed within the Civil Rights Movement,” says Aldon Morris, a sociologist at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the new study. “The question becomes, ‘Are Black Lives Matter protests having any real effect in terms of generating change?’ The data show very clearly that where you had Black Lives Matter protests, killing of people by the police decreased. It’s inescapable from this study that protest matters—that it can generate change.”

Read more on Portside: Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests by Jim Daley.

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