before a judge had no idean he didn t even bother to guess because honestly he didn t really care. but we do care. d we ve got a theory and here it is. if you look at the numbers, you will notice that traffic deathst among african-americans in the year 2020 surged in the monthth of june, fatalities among black drivers in june. 2020 were fully 55% higher than they were in june of 2019. you never see increases like that . what could have happened? well let s see. he was in the last week of mayed of 2020 that a convicted felon called george floyd died in police custody in minneapolis and afterol that you ll recall everything changed. what changedl most of all was how we regard the rule of c law as russ martin of the governor s highway safety association put it, floyd s death quote accelerated national discussion about equity in transport d and that discussion would include quote questions about enforcement. oh , there it is right there. that s the answer. cops across the country were tol