Why #BlackLivesMatter should be #PoorLivesMatter—now with graphics

A casual glance shows police killings are racially disproportionate to our population — though black people are 13.3% of the US, 25% of people killed by the police are black. But that hides another fact:Police killings are racially proportionate to America’s poor.Which makes sense—though there are exceptions from all races, most people killed by the police are poor. As I write,The Counted