Here is the great irony confronting the Defund the Police Campaign of Black Lives Matter, which arose from the death of Saint George Floyd, is that there was a dramatic rise in Black Deaths. Hannah Meyers, director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital: "Certainly, the protests and riots mid-2020 after the death of George Floyd followed a pattern of spiking violence that we've seen following past viral police incidents, such as the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. This pattern has been termed the ‘Ferguson Effect’: police pull back while violent crime spikes precipitously." “In 2019, at least 7,484 Black Americans were murdered. That number shot up to at least 9,941 murders in 2020, meaning there was an increase of 2,457 Black Americans murdered over the previous year.
The number of Black murders was also far higher than White murders in 2020. The FBI data shows there 7,043 White people murdered that year, meaning 2,898 more Black people were killed compared to Whites.”