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“Not only are Black men more likely to be fatally killed by police, they are even more likely when they are unarmed…Every year, roughly 1,000 people are lethally shot by the police—about 10% of whom are unarmed, and 40–50% of these are racial and ethnic minorities."
Killing Fields: Explaining Police Violence Against Persons of Color
Journal of Social Issues
Vol. 73 Issue 4, pp. 872–883,
2017
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