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.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), which keeps data on officer deaths going back over 100 years, 24 officers have been shot and killed by suspects this year. This puts the US on pace for 36 non-accidental, firearm-related police fatalities in 2015. Each one of such deaths is a tragedy for the officers killed, their families and the communities they serve, but this would be the lowest total in 25 years, aside from 2013 which saw 31 such deaths. Republicans step up attack campaign â and the target is Black Lives Matter