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   https://news.yahoo.com/companies-loudly-supported-blm-fall-060327006.html   
      
   Corporate voices boomed across the nation in support of Black Lives Matter   
   and various social justice initiatives following the death of George Floyd   
   in 2020. Nearly two years later, what was left in the wake of 2020 was a   
   drastic spike Black murders with experts pinning blame on the BLM and   
   defund the police movements.   
      
   The summer of 2020 was marked by protests and riots from coast to coast in   
   support of the BLM and defund the police movements following the death of   
   George Floyd. Companies stretching from behemoth e-commerce and tech   
   company Amazon to beauty giant Ulta posted messages reiterating "Black   
   lives matter," and companies around the country pledged millions of   
   dollars to various social justice organizations that pushed to reimagine   
   policing and reallocate funds from police departments.   
      
   FBI data reported by Fox News Digital last week shows murders spiked   
   disproportionally among Black Americans in 2020 by 32% compared to the   
   year prior. Murders across the board spiked by nearly 30% that year,   
   marking the largest single-year increase in killings since the agency   
   began tracking the crimes.   
      
   MASSIVE INCREASE IN BLACK AMERICANS MURDERED WAS RESULT OF DEFUND POLICE   
   MOVEMENT: EXPERTS   
      
   At least 7,484 Black Americans were murdered in 2019, according to FBI   
   data Fox News Digital reported last week. That number shot up to at least   
   9,941 murders in 2020, meaning there was an increase of 2,457 Black   
   Americans murdered over the previous year.   
      
   For White Americans, FBI data show there were 7,043 White people murdered   
   in 2020, meaning 2,898 more Black people were killed compared to Whites.   
      
   An average of 6,927 Black Americans were murdered each year between 2010   
   and 2019, meaning Black murders shot up by 43% in 2020 compared to the   
   previous 10-year average.   
      
   AMAZON SUSPENDS BLACK LIVES MATTER FROM CHARITY PROGRAM AS CONTROVERSY   
   SWIRLS AROUND GROUP'S FINANCES   
      
   To experts such as the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, BLM and   
   the defund movements that swept the nation directly contributed to the   
   spike. The spike "began months after lockdowns beginning only after   
   riots," Mac Donald told Fox News Digital, noting the "spike was not at all   
   related to COVID."   
      
   Fox News Digital reached out to a handful of corporations and companies   
   that pledged support for Black Lives Matter and various organizations   
   supporting tenets of the defund movement, such as the Equal Justice   
   Initiative and the National Urban League in the days and months following   
   the death of Floyd.   
      
   The Equal Justice Initiative advocates for the reallocations of "funds   
   from traditional policing to services that promote public safety." While   
   the National Urban League outlines on its website that it has "21 Pillars"   
   on "comprehensive and realistic reform and accountability," including   
   "collaborate with communities to re-envision public safety" and "change   
   divisive policing policies."   
      
   Representatives for Nike, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Ben & Jerry’s,   
   Nordstrom, Target and Ulta did not return Fox News Digital’s requests for   
   comment.   
      
   A Ben and Jerry's ice cream store on Sept. 23, 2021, in Miami, Florida.   
   Joe Raedle/Getty Images   
   A Ben and Jerry's ice cream store on Sept. 23, 2021, in Miami, Florida.   
   Joe Raedle/Getty Images   
   Companies such as Nordstrom, Ben & Jerry’s and Amazon openly aligned   
   themselves with Black Lives Matter.   
      
   Nordstrom said in January of 2021 that it was "supporting the important   
   work of nonprofit organizations," including the Black Lives Matter Global   
   Network Foundation. Amazon announced in 2020 that it was donating $10   
   million "to organizations that are working to bring about social justice   
   and improve the lives of Black and African Americans," including BLM.   
      
   While Ben & Jerry’s noted in 2020 that it supported the BLM movement years   
   before Floyd’s death and declared, "Today, we want to be even more clear   
   about the urgent need to take concrete steps to dismantle white supremacy   
   in all its forms."   
      
   'WOKE' RETAILERS WHO ASKED CONGRESS FOR HELP AMID SMASH-AND-GRABS   
   SUPPORTED LEFT-WING POLICE REFORMS   
      
   Nike - along with Converse, Jordan Brand and Michael Jordan - announced in   
   2020 it would donate a combined $140 over 10 years to organizations such   
   as the National Urban League and Equal Justice Initiative. Apple launched   
   a $100 million program called the Racial Equity and Justice Initiative in   
   June of 2020, which pledged support to various groups including working   
   with EJI. Facebook pledged support to groups fighting racial inequality   
   just days after Floyd’s death, including EJI, as did Ulta Beauty. In 2020,   
   Target announced a $10 million commitment to "advancing social justice,"   
   including donations to the National Urban League.   
      
   The Equal Justice Initiative and National Urban League did not immediately   
   respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment when confronted with the   
   FBI data on Black murders and experts arguing the defund movement   
   contributed to the spike.   
      
   Black Lives Matter’s press team has not responded to repeated requests for   
   comment on the data and experts’ arguments. The national organization,   
   which was co-founded by a self-described "trained Marxist," has come under   
   intense scrutiny in recent months as questions were raised about   
   leadership’s financial dealings. Amazon announced in February of this year   
   that it suspended the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation from   
   its charity platform for failing to disclose where tens of millions of   
   dollars were allocated.   
      
   Just last week, former diversity leader under the Donald Trump   
   administration Bruce LeVell wrote an op-ed slamming corporations for their   
   "huge miscalculation" in backing the Black Lives Matter Global Network   
   Foundation.   
      
   "Unfortunately, BLMGNF has intimidated the leaders of some of America’s   
   largest corporations into paying fealty to its harmful and deceptive   
   narrative," LeVell wrote in the Tennessee Star on Thursday. "Rather than   
   challenging the Marxist provocateurs at BLMGNF, corporate leaders have   
   prostrated themselves and even donated shareholder resources to a cause   
   that is intrinsically opposed to free markets, individual liberties, law   
   and order, and everything else that allows American businesses to thrive."   
      
      
      
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