talk:Black Lives Matter#Deaths inspiring the movement
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| title = #BlackLivesMatter | author = R.L.G. | date = January 15, 2015 | url = http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/01/johnson-words-year-0 | org = The Economist
| title2 = Is a Hashtag a Word? The Case of #BlackLivesMatter | author2 = Gretchen McCulloch | date2 = January 29, 2015 | url2 = http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/01/29/is_a_hashtag_a_word_the_case_of_blacklivesmatter.html | org2 = Slate
| title3 = Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet's biggest flaws | author3 = Jeff Guo | org3 = The Washington Post
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Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2025
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Changing the name Opal Tometi to Ayọ Tometi, per the name change cited in the personal article. Sufficiat (talk) 19:37, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
:{{a note}} 1) Tometi is not the subject of the article. 2) She changed her to Ayọ Tometi in 2021. I'm not convinced that applying to what the older sources say is the right to do. I'll leave it to someone else. M.Bitton (talk) 01:44, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Possibly wrong fact?
"According to The Washington Post, police officers shot and killed 1,001 people in the United States in 2019. About half of those killed were white, and one quarter were black, making the rate of deaths for black Americans (31 fatal shootings per million) more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans (13 fatal shootings per million). The Washington Post also counts 13 unarmed black Americans shot dead by police in 2019."
This doesn't make sense. I think it meant to say 'About half of those killed were black, and one quarter where white.' Which would make the following "making the rate of deaths for black Americans (31 fatal shootings per million) more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans (13 fatal shootings per million)" in line with the point being made. Suye01111000 (talk) 19:13, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
:It's talking about the rate in that Black Americans only account for 14-15% of the population but a quarter of people killed by the police. White Americans are about 70% of the population but only half of killings. i.e. the overall count of white people being killed is higher, but the rate is lower. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:22, 5 March 2025 (UTC)