Iran Press/ America: It has been proven throughout history that black Americans have always been subjected to discriminatory motives. It is tragic to state that some of them, including George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Andrew Brown Jr., etc have lost their lives as a result of police violence and such behaviors.
There have also been a number of reports on discriminatory behavior towards black women in the US resulting in the death of these women.
While the killing of Brianna Kupfer, a white woman, in Los Angeles this month garnered national attention, the death of Tioni Theus, Breahna Stines and Marneysha Hamilton, all Black women, in two other separate killings in Los Angeles, received scant attention and were largely treated as local news, said the report released on Thursday.
"Black women and girls are being murdered and I don't think anyone is paying attention," the report quoted Lawanda Hawkins, a Los Angeles-based victim rights advocate, as saying.
Although discrepancies between the attention to white victims of violence and Black victims of violence are nothing new, community organizers and researchers worry about the message this phenomenon continues to send to young Black girls about their worth and potential, it said.
Black residents, despite comprising 6 percent of California's population, made up 31 percent of the state's homicide victims, the report said, noting that across the United States, homicides increased by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, the largest single-year jump in the 60 years.
While most gun violence victims were Black men, at least four Black women and girls were murdered per day in the United States in 2020, a sharp increase compared with the year before, it said, citing FBI data.
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