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This is true, but a very, very small sub-set of people being shot. IIRC, greater than 80% of people shot by police have a weapon and are actively resisting.
by mhuffman 10y ago
This is true, but a very, very small sub-set of people being shot. IIRC, greater than 80% of people shot by police have a weapon and are actively resisting.
- jellicle 10y agoSince the U.S. does not collect any statistics on police shootings, it's hard to see how you could know that.
- mhuffman 10y agoEvidently from, "... news reports, public records, Internet databases, and original reporting"[1] Going by their data, of the 258 Black people shot by police in 2015, 188 were armed with a deadly weapon, 20 with a vehicle, 5 wth a toy weapon, and 45 either unarmed or unknown. If you accept toy weapons and vehicles as being armed, that is 82%, which is what I remember hearing. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...