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Police Killings Decreased In Cities That Saw Black Lives Matter Protests, Study Finds

There's up to a 20% difference between cities that saw Black Lives Matter protests from 2014 to 2019 to those that didn't, the study finds.
Police and protesters converge during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Louisville, Kentucky, in Sept. 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)

Black Lives Matter gained prominence after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Since then, the movement has spread to hundreds of cities across the country.

A new study published in the Social Science Research Network finds that the number

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