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Similarly, a 2012 Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) report, Operation Ghetto Storm, revealedthat police, security guards, and vigilantes killed 313 Black people that year, which represents a Blackperson being killed every 28 hours. 8 The cases cited in Operation Ghetto Storm explicitly includeBlack people of all genders, but the report is often cited to support the premise that a Black man iskilled every 28 hours, thereby erasing the killings of Black women. 9Our hope is that this document will honor the intention of the #BlackLivesMatter movement to lift upthe intrinsic value of all Black lives by serving as a resource to answer the increasingly persistent callfor attention to Black women killed by police. 10 This document offers preliminary information aboutpolice killings of Black women that have not galvanized national attention or driven our discourse.The information presented here is organized around two themes. First, we seek to highlight the factthat many killings of Black women could be understood within the existing frames surrounding racialprofiling and the use of lethal force. The solution to their absence is not complex; Black women canbe lifted up across the movement through a collective commitment to recognize what is right in frontof us. Second, we present cases that highlight the forms of police violence against Black women thatare invisible within the current focus on police killings and excessive force. The challenge here is to expandthe existing frames so that this violence too is legible to activists, policy makers and the media.7Addressing Black women’s experience of police violence requires a broadening of the public conversation,informed by robust research, analysis, and advocacy. Toward this end, we will offer a more detailedanalysis of Black women’s experiences of policing in a forthcoming research report. In the meantime,we hope that this document will be used by the media and policymakers, advocates and organizers, tobegin to break the silence around Black women’s experiences of police violence. But the first step inbreaking this silence is within reach now. We need only answer the simple call to #SayHerName.