Numbers behind anger: U.S. racism, inequality in stats

The protests that have engulfed U.S. cities in the past few days were triggered by the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died after a white police officer held him to the ground and pressed his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

But the systemic racism and inequality that African Americans, Latinos and other minority communities face every day laid the groundwork for this explosion of anger and outrage.

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