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based on 2015 data it's closer to 30% - https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed

• nl 6y ago
  I don't see that on this page. I see "police killed at least 104 unarmed black people in 2015", and "unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015". So I think that makes around 125-130 unarmed people killed by police. [1] says that there were 1,134 people killed that year by police. 125/1134 = 11% [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-...
  • ciceryadam 6y ago
    Next point under the 104 figure "36% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015" 36% is 104, 100% is 289
    • nl 6y ago
      How can the 36% and the 5x numbers both be correct? I'm puzzled!! Also that's still "only" 25% that are unarmed.
      • ciceryadam 6y ago
        one is absolute numbers, other is per million.