One of the most common, ongoing struggles we face in our sanctification as believers is the area of anger. And one of the most common ways we mismanage our anger is by failing to distinguish between righteous and sinful anger, and response.
Overall, police have killed at least 67 people since Kaepernickâs protest began, according to The Guardianâs database. Roughly 22 percent of the victims have been black. Police have killed more than 780 people so far in 2016, according to The Guardianâs numbers. At least 193 of those people â or about 25 percent â were black.
Since Jan. 1, 2015, police in the United States have killed a staggering 745 people. According to statistics provided to Mic by research collective Mapping Police Violence, American police are on track to kill around 1,200 people in 2015 if the slayings continue at the same pace through the remainder of the year. The map below shows how many individuals have died in each of the 50 states and D.C.