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Dec 5, 2022 · Advertisement. 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...
- Washington Post Staff
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...
- Reporter
These are just a few of the Black Americans killed by police. There are many, many more. Between 2014 and 2020, police in the United States killed at least 7,680 people. Twenty-five...
- Alia Chughtai
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2023, there were 1,163 fatal police shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 6...
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
The police have disproportionately killed Black people at a rate of 3·5 times higher than White people, and have killed Hispanic and Indigenous people disproportionately as well. The rate of fatal police violence was higher in every year for Black Americans than for White Americans.
Apr 22, 2021 · Here's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans. 17 July 2014: Eric Garner Getty Images
