Here are some things to remember about police interactions because what the media highlights is simply that–a highlight.

This is a video version of a tweet I decided was important enough to make more content from: https://twitter.com/desiraethinking/status/1301990870212845569

 

Sources

 

The police protest videos are from pexels.com.

The number of people killed by police each year varies, but I used 1,000 as a general rule based on that variation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

I did the same for the racial breakdown.

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6406

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124036/number-people-killed-police-ethnicity-us/