â2020 was a tinderboxâ: murders rose in US neighborhoods of color last year
A strained social safety net, rising tensions and mistrust between police and communities of color played part, experts say
Despite a statewide stay-at-home order, Los Angeles recorded 332 killings in 2020, a precipitous jump â 95 more lives lost to murder than the year before. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
Despite a statewide stay-at-home order, Los Angeles recorded 332 killings in 2020, a precipitous jump â 95 more lives lost to murder than the year before. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
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Thu 8 Apr 2021 07.00 EDT
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On 26 April 2020, 49-year-old Telish Garder was shot and killed in his home in south Los Angeles. Gardner had four daughters, the youngest just 14, and worked fueling trucks for the cityâs sanitation department. Two days later and a few blocks away,