- The murder rate for African Americans jumped 32 percent after the beginning of the pandemic
- The murder rate for whites increased 21 percent from 2019 to 2020
- 2,457 more blacks died at the hand of another in 2020 than the year before
- Over the decade between 2010 and 2019 43 percent more blacks were killed, roughly a 1000 more than whites each year
- Criminal justice experts blame criminal justice reform and the Black Lives Matter movement
- Some academic and police say that the increase in gun purchases and economic inequality bear some responsibility
By Jason Fisher
TheDailyMail.co.uk
The number of black Americans murdered in 2020 jumped by 32 percent - with an expert blaming BLM protests for the huge spike by scaring-off cops.
Killings across racial demographic have swelled by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, the largest increase since 1905, but blacks have borne the larger impact of that deadly trend, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime report.
In 2020, 9,941 African Americans met their death at the hand of another human being, compared to 7,484 the year before, an increase of 2,457 murders.
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