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Since the U.S. does not collect any statistics on police shootings, it's hard to see how you could know that.
by jellicle 10y ago
Since 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...