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Mar 3, 2022 · Black people, who account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 27 percent of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit...
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- Tony McDade aka Natosha McDade, 38, Tallahassee, FL.
- Modesto "Marrero Desto" Reyes, 35, Marrero, LA.
- Ruben Smith III, 35, North Little Rock, AK.
- Jarvis Sullivan, 44, Yulee, FL.
Between 2014 and 2020, police in the United States killed at least 7,680 people. Twenty-five percent of those killed were Black, although Black Americans make up just 13 percent of the...
- Alia Chughtai
Jan 25, 2021 · Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found. NPR reviewed police, court and other records to examine the...
- Cheryl W. Thompson
Dec 5, 2022 · Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans. Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate...
- Washington Post Staff
May 25, 2023 · Black people in America are killed by the police at three times the rate of their white counterparts. And the number of deaths has remained consistent from year to year. Victims and their...
Jun 2, 2020 · The protests that have erupted in cities across the United States in the last week are a visceral response to two recent police killings of black Americans: Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,...
