At least 59 more Black men and women have been killed by police since George Floyd
On May 25, George Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. The incident sparked international protests against racism and police brutality. But in the wake of this mass call for change, police are still killing Black men and women at disproportionate rates.
To count those killed by police, Mapping Police Violence draws from police shooting databases, obituaries, criminal record databases, police reports, and other sources. It includes people who died"as a result of being shot, beaten, restrained, intentionally hit by a police vehicle, pepper sprayed, tasered, or otherwise harmed by police officers, whether on-duty or off-duty." The Washington Post's log includes every person who has been fatally shot by a police officer.
Police have killed more people in the first half of 2020 than in the first half of each of the previous four years, according to Mapping Police Violence, despite more people staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic. From January 1 to August 31 of this year, Mapping Police Violence and the Post identified 771 people who were killed by police, 164 of whom — roughly 21% — were Black. {var js, id="pikto-embed-js", ref=d.getElementsByTagName[0];if ) { return;}js=d.createElement; js.
The study concluded that Black men"face an exceptionally high risk" of police killings, estimating that 1 out of every 1,000 Black males"can expect to be killed by police" — twice the risk faced by the general male population. Cases in which the person killed was unarmed have a similar pattern. The data shows that of 69 cases in which a person was unarmed when they were killed, 26 were White and 21 were Black. When looking at total cases for the year by race, the data shows that White people killed by police were unarmed 8.7% of the time, while Black people killed by police were unarmed roughly 12.8% of the time.
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