Since the George Floyd trial, there have been three highly contentious police killing of black Americans: Duante Wright, Ma’Khia Bryant, and Andrew Brown. Before going into an assessment of these cases, it is important to put them in context.
Every year, police kill about 250 black Americans. Just over 80 percent of black victims had either a gun or a knife; only 6 percent — less than 15 annually — were unarmed. Indeed, at the time of the Floyd trial, only 3 unarmed black Americans had been killed by the police in 2021.
Social justice advocates justify the focus on police killings because of the fear they spread in black communities. In a 2019 USAToday opinion piece, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son, Dante, recalled a late night walk in a problematic San Francisco neighborhood.
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