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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 fatal...
- People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by Race
Murder in the U.S.: number of victims 2022, by...
- People Shot to Death by U.S. Police, by Month 2023
Percentage of fatal shootings by police in the U.S., from...
- England and Wales Fatal Police Shootings 2023
In 2022/23, the police in England and Wales fatally shot...
- People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by Race
Dec 5, 2022 · After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that data reported to the FBI on fatal police shootings was...
- Washington Post Staff
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...
- Cheryl W. Thompson
A police officer shot and killed Durr as she and a friend gathered coal from a train car. The officer claimed Durr jumped on him, causing his gun to discharge, but Durr's friend claimed she was shot while they were running away. Durr had been shot in the back of the head. March 26, 1938 Berry Lawson: 21 Seattle, Washington
Jun 24, 2020 · Last year, fifty-five people were killed by police shootings while “unarmed.” This number comes from the Washington Post dataset of fatal police shootings, which is aggregated by “local news reports, law enforcement websites and social media” as well as other independent databases.
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...
May 1, 2015 · Unarmed Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. In November, a grand jury declined to charge Wilson in the fatal shooting. Brown's death and the lack of charges against Wilson sparked protests, some of them violent, in Ferguson and across the nation.