Black teens, a large number of them being young Black girls, are frequently on the other side of police brutality and violence, a study conducted by The Marshall Project finds. By conducting an investigation that targeted six large police departments, the organization discovered roughly 4,000 children 17 and younger had experienced some form of police violence between 2015 and 2020. Nearly 800 people from the study group or about 1/5 of the children were Black girls. On the side of their counterparts, white girls only made up about 3% of the group with about 120 cases. The data also showed the largely understood facts that Black boys face police brutality at the highest numbers. More than 2,200 cases showing use-of-force studied by the Marshall Project involved Black boys. No matter the city –– the project looked into New Orleans, Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, and Portland, Oregon –– young Black girls were involved in a high number of use-of-force cases. In...
