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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Possibly.
According to a WaPo article I read a while ago, almost an equal number of unarmed white and black people have been killed by police since 2017.
By percentage of population in the U.S., an unarmed black person is 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police officer, but that doesn't mean that white people are not also victims of unnecessary police brutality. It's definitely a bigger issue for black people, but it's an issue everyone regardless of race should be concerned about.
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Here's the Washington Post police shooting tracker (2019):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...hootings-2019/
1004 fatal police shootings in 2019. 41 against unarmed. Of those 19 White, 9 Black, 6 Hispanic, 7 other/unknown.
Here's the Guardian's data on all police killings (2016):
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...gs-us-database
1093 killed. Per million by ethnicity: 10.1 Native American, 6.6 Black, 3.2 Hispanic, 2.9 White, 1.2 Asian.