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Race + Color + Ethnicity
Guardian investigation finds nearly two-thirds of unarmed individuals killed by police or in police custody in 2015 have been minorities.
  • The Counted, The Guardian‘s new interactive database tracking police killings in the U.S., reports that almost 1 in 3 black people killed by police were unarmed, while 1 in 4 Hispanics/Latinos were.
  • The database details a state-by-state breakdown of total and per-capita, gender, race/ethnicity, armed status, and by-cause fatality numbers, as well as a searchable list of those killed.
  • Advocates for police reform laud the investigation as a step towards awareness-building and accountability.

“The public need to know what is happening and be made more informed. With them being more informed they would be able to react differently, in a positive way, to make changes, to make sure some of these things don’t happen again.”

More on this story at The Guardian.

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