In New Jersey,
Black people are at least three times more likely to face police force than someone who is white. https://force.nj.com/ ">https://force.nj.com/">...
Black people are at least three times more likely to face police force than someone who is white. https://force.nj.com/ ">https://force.nj.com/">...
Black people are imprisoned at 12 times the rate of white residents, according to @SentencingProj.
Law enforcement officers kill about a dozen people each year, almost all of them men, most of them Black and brown, according to @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/...
We went to the marchers, civil rights leaders, lawmakers and others in New Jersey and asked what’s next?
“There is a school to prison pipeline that is getting swept under the rug in America."- Alexandra Bernard-Simmons
How do you suggest we make change happen?
Hear from N.J. change-makers in the @NJ_Opinion project, Making Black lives matter: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/08/making-black-lives-matter.html">https://www.nj.com/opinion/2...
Hear from N.J. change-makers in the @NJ_Opinion project, Making Black lives matter: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/08/making-black-lives-matter.html">https://www.nj.com/opinion/2...