Race remains the most volatile flash point in any accounting of police shootings. Although black men make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year, The Post’s database shows. In the majority of cases in which police shot and killed a person who had attacked someone with a weapon or brandished a gun, the person who was shot was white. But a hugely disproportionate number — 3 in 5 — of those killed after exhibiting less threatening behavior were black or Hispanic.
This would suggest to me that the cops are quicker to shoot unarmed blacks and Hispanics than armed whites.
Officers have fatally shot nearly 1,000 civilians in 2015 https://t.co/zF1sfcyFSs
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 27, 2015
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