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“Officers… kill a substantial number of civilians who do not pose a lethal threat and these civilians are disproportionately people of color.” & “Nearly half of the time that an officer kills a civilian, the civilian is either unarmed or armed with a [less lethal] weapon."
When an Officer Kills: Turning Legal Police Conduct into Illegal Police Misconduct
Texas Law Review
Vol. 98 Issue 3, pp. 601–624,
2020
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