New research has found the 2020 homicide surge was weaker in GOP-voting counties, not linked to gun sale increases or COVID-19, and higher among black Americans, adding to a deeply contentious debate over the violence that shook America that year.
“Some people were claiming there was not a spike, or that it is in Republican states, and others were claiming it just had to do with COVID,” said Christos Makridis, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and lead author of the new analysis, in an email interview with The Epoch Times.
2020 was marked by the death of George Floyd and associated protests and riots….