Marginalized people’s lives should be as valued as mine
Situations escalate. And too often, police fail to de-escalate them. Part of the solution to that is having police officers involved in fewer situations.
Take a look at this chart with me. Axios released it earlier this week, based on data from the Mapping Police Violence project. It shows each time police officers killed someone in 2020 and what initially prompted the interaction with police.
It’s striking that so many officers end up killing people who weren’t engaged in violence when the cal…