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“These studies have demonstrated that the decision to shoot may be influenced by a target person’s ethnicity. In four studies, [non-police] participants showed a bias to shoot African American targets more rapidly and/or more frequently than White targets."

The Police Officer's Dilemma: Using Ethnicity to Disambiguate Potentially Threatening Individuals.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Correll, Joshua / Park, Bernadette / Judd, Charles M. / Wittenbrink, Bernd

Vol. 83 Issue 6, pp. 1314–1329, 2002

10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1314

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