The repeated killing of unarmed black people.
The phenomenon has a name in South Africa: "intimate femicide", or, as the journalist and crime writer Margie Orford calls the repeated killing of women across the country, "serial femicide".
This was because of the repeated killing of Palestinians, many of whom were children.
"Even in the face of repeated mass killings".
Earlier this year, the President recalled, he made this point in an interview, noting that the country persists with lax gun laws despite repeated mass killings.
The president told the BBC that the United States is the one advanced country that does not have "sufficient common-sense gun safety laws even in the face of repeated mass killings".
Earlier this year, I answered a question in an interview by saying, "The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws -- even in the face of repeated mass killings". And later that day, there was a mass shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana.
As the repeated cop killings of black males across US prompt multiracial "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations, there's No Woman, No Cry and Johnny Was a Good Man; when brutality cloaked as religious extremism strikes terror, Bob sings, in We and Dem: "Me no know how we and them gonna work it out".
"The issue of guns, that is an area where if you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient, commonsense gun-safety laws... even in the face of repeated mass killings," Obama told the BBC.
Mourners at the rally in Brooklyn chanted the now-familiar slogans against the repeated police killings of black people.
