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“Black lives are systematically undervalued even when governments do compensate victims of police violence… Courts use race-based actuarial tables to calculate… lower damages valuations for Black lives since the tables estimate that they will live shorter lives."

Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts
Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts
Yale Law Journal
White, Helen E.
Vol. 128 Issue 6, pp. 1478–1791, 2019
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/making-black-lives-matter-properly-valuing-the-rights-of-the-marginalized-in-constitutional-torts
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