The
new data on fatalities and violence at American protests comes from a database created by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (
ACLED), a non-profit, working in collaboration with a group of researchers at Princeton
The Armed Conflict and Event Data project which started monitoring political violence in Yemen and later included other areas including the middle east,Asia and Europe determined that 25 people died as a result of political violence during the BLM protests...
."ACLED found that the
overwhelming majority of the
more than 9.000 Black Lives Matter demonstrations that took place across the US after the killing of George Floyd have been peaceful. News reports at the height of demonstrations over Floyd’s killing cited
dozens of deaths in connection with protests, but many of those turned out to be
examples of deadly crimes carried out in the vicinity of protests, rather than directly related to the demonstrations themselves, the researchers concluded. ACLED’s dataset only focuses on
political violence."
Findings from Armed Conflict Location and Event Data raise concerns about continued violence during and after election day
www.theguardian.com
Of the 25, 11 were people killed while participating in actual demonstrations. Of those 9 were people participating in BLM protests and 2 were people participating in pro-Trump rallies. Most of those killed were by guns, but there were also instances of vehicles running over people...
Since most of those killed in connection with BLM rallies were participants, 9 is actually a pretty small-term relative to 9000 rallies studied. Since there were 4 killed on Jan 6 (along with Sicknick and the other LEO who later committed suicide) that's basically 6 people dying as a result of a single incident. Luckily the BLM demonstrations didn't result in anywhere approaching an average of 6 fatalities, or we really would have had "countless deaths"...