In the wake of the high-profile cases involving white police officers and their deadly encounters with black men, multiple Twitter hashtag campaigns have been started.

#CrimingWhileWhite captures white people’s reported encounters with police, and how benign those interactions were. #AliveWhileBlack documents the daily racism that African-Americans deal with on a daily basis, from law enforcement and others.

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Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.  Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)