I had a discussion about BLM today (I'm not from US) with some of my friends and I feel like I haven't been able to convince them that those protests have a point. Basically it's not a mainstream issue in my country and I feel like it only pops up on local news and websites when there are acts of vandalism, or if someone on BLM's side says some stupid shit (like Lebron's tweet recently).
Basically I know that there are studies that showed that black people are searched at disproportionate rates or that black drivers are a lot more likely to be stopped when driving the car if a cop can identify their race. So if anyone has any resources that aggregate such things it would be great.
Machine Bias - There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
Wikipedia - Racial Bias in Criminal News in the US
Racial Bias in Crime Reporting - Research shows the media disproportionately depict African-Americans as criminals, and whites as victims. Brooke speaks with Nazgol Ghandnoosh, research analyst at The Sentencing Project, about her study, "Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies," which details how media distortions feed our own implicit biases. (And you can take Harvard's Implicit Association Test yourself here.)