larly among black folks by about 5% since 2012. we know if you look for example, at just in this past march compared to february there was an increase in 35% increase in the number of people killed by police and a 71% increase in the number of black people killed by police between those two months. okay . compare the percent taj or number of white americans killed versus black americans. so we know black folks are three timeser more likely to be kill bid police than white folks. 304 black people were killed by police in 2014. what am i to make of the consistent counter claim when we talk about the issue that the real question the real violence issue isn t about violence from police toward civilians but the murder rate in general or as it is often the discourse is black on black crime. i have two rebuttals to that. the first is that it s important for folks to know in 17 of the