It became international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, punched, beat, pepper\u002Dsprayed and stun\u002Dgunned a black suspect
The new mayor of Los Angeles, a black female, said in an interview: “Even with the black officers, I wonder how they would have reacted if it was a young white person?”
Here are the facts. It is rare for cops to kill anybody — an average of about 1,000 people annually over the last eight years, 82% of them armed , out of a population of more than 334 million, with over 61.5 million civilians having at least one police contact in 2018, and almost 54 million having contact with police in 2020, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Odds are much less for an unarmed black person to be killed.
In 2019, police killed 12 unarmed black men. But according to a poll in Policemag.com, among those who self-described as “very liberal” over 50% thought the police killed 1,000 or more unarmed black men in 2019. Thirty-nine percent of self-described “liberals” also estimated the number at 1,000.
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