id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jivobqqrqfcfrkwv5i7jbsaxtu Vanessa Williamson Black Lives Matter: Evidence that Police-Caused Deaths Predict Protest Activity 2018 16 .pdf application/pdf 12166 1258 57 Black Lives Matter: Evidence that PoliceCaused Deaths Predict Protest Activity Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against Black people have occurred across a number of American cities under We find that Black Lives Matter protests are more likely to occur in localities literature on the development of social movements and recent scholarship on the carceral state's impact on political particular, both resource mobilization and political opportunity structure variables predict BLM protest frequency. Our dataset of Black Lives Matter protests captures 780 the location of protests and of police-caused deaths, we Black Lives Matter protests by locality. race, for example, there is a substantial underrepresentation of Black people in local politics; only 91 cities in our of protest activity following a police-caused death of an Though a local history of police-caused deaths of Black BLM protest and unarmed deaths of Black people or From Protest to Politics: The New Black ./cache/work_jivobqqrqfcfrkwv5i7jbsaxtu.pdf ./txt/work_jivobqqrqfcfrkwv5i7jbsaxtu.txt