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“While the majority of white respondents who read about a white victim blamed the officer (56.0%), white respondents who read a[n identical] story about an African American young man were almost 20 percentage points less likely to fault the officer (37.7%)."

Racialized Differences in Perceptions of and Emotional Responses to Police Killings of Unarmed African Americans
Politics, Groups and Identities
Vol. 8 Issue 2, pp. 396–406,
2020
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