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According to the database Mapping Police Violence, law enforcement officers have killed around 1,000 people a year, and Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police. 

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Since 2015, around 48 Black women have been killed by police, according to the Washington Post. Only two officers were ever charged, and one was later acquitted. 

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"We will no longer accept that our skin color is the reason we are brutalized," said one speaker at the Women's March for Black Lives. 

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“Every argument for women’s suffrage is an argument for Black suffrage, and every argument for Black suffrage is an argument for women’s suffrage," said one attendee in a speech.