From NPR
The deadly shootings of unarmed Black men and women by police officers in the U.S. have increasingly garnered worldwide attention over the last few years. The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a week of protests that catapulted the Black Lives Matter movement into the national spotlight. Since then, tens of thousands of people across the country have taken to the streets to protest police brutality of Blacks by mostly white officers.
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 details of the cases. At least 75% of the officers were white.
Mapping Police Violence
From Newsweek:
181 Black People Have Been Killed by Police Since George Floyd's Death
Numbers gathered between 2013 and 2020 indicate that Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people, despite being 1.3 times more likely to be unarmed than white people. These figures are amplified when looking at the country's largest cities.
Of the 181 police killings of Black people since Floyd's death, the highest number of killings occurred in Florida, with 19 victims, followed by California, where there were 17, and Texas and Georgia, which each recorded 13.
Of the police killings documented in 2020, traffic stops were listed as the initial police encounter in121 deaths.
Ever hear of "driving while black"? Young black men have good reason to fear even when they are obeying the rules.
Of course there are some black on black killings, but that does not mean that it's O.K. for officers who are sworn to "protect and serve" to kill so many people.