For decades, African Americans have taken to the streets in both peaceful protests and, at times, violent uprisings to express outrage over police killings of African American citizens.1 This long-standing history of protest is currently manifesting itself in the hundreds of peaceful and dozens of, at times, violent uprisings that have occurred in the years after the death of Tray von Martin and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, it remains an unanswered question as to whether protests have had any impact on police killings of African American civilians. We turn to the over 700 racial civil disturbances that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s to better understand this relationship. These uprisings occurred in a different era, but they were typically triggered by incidents of police brutality or other violent interactions between the African American community and police (Bauman 2008).
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机译：几十年来，非洲裔美国人在和平抗议中有时甚至在街头暴力起义中走上街头，以表达对警察杀害非裔美国人的愤怒。1这种长期的抗议历史目前表现在数百个和平与和平中。在特雷·冯·马丁（Tray von Martin）逝世和黑人生活问题运动（Black Lives Matter）兴起之后的几年中，有时发生过数十次暴力起义。但是，关于抗议活动是否对杀害非裔美国人的警察有任何影响，仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。我们转向1960年代和1970年代发生的700多次种族内乱，以更好地理解这种关系。这些起义发生在不同的时代，但通常是由警察残暴事件或非裔美国人社区与警察之间的其他暴力互动事件触发的（Bauman 2008）。
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