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. 2020 Oct 21;22(10):e22574. doi: 10.2196/22574

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©John W Ayers, Benjamin M Althouse, Adam Poliak, Eric C Leas, Alicia L Nobles, Mark Dredze, Davey Smith. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 21.10.2020.

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Internet searches for “police” and “reform(s)” following the death of George Floyd. Queries included all searches with the terms “police” and “reform(s).” Top panel shows the historic trends of reform searches in comparison to after Mr Floyd’s death. Middle panels show the percent increases in searches after Mr Floyd’s death (vertical dashed line is the day of the killing, May 25, 2020), and the bottom map shows the cumulative query fraction by state, including Washington DC, for the entire period following Mr Floyd’s death (May 25, 2020, through July 5, 2020).