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A small group of protesters gathered outside the 18th Police Precinct in West Philadelphia Wednesday night.

Police say looting along Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood Tuesday night was a “total loss.”

Black women have the highest rates of homicide in the country, says Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and the executive director of the African American Policy Forum.

In 2015, the 37-year-old was tasered to death in jail while she was experiencing a mental health crisis, Crenshaw says. The scene was captured on video and distributed, yet little national attention was focused on her horrific death, she says.

“We don't tell the stories about the disrespect that Black women experienced. So not too surprisingly, when the police treat Black women in ways that are continuous with that legacy, we don't have the stories,”