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Young black men 21 more times likely to be shot and killed by police than whites

A recent study of federal data on fatal police shootings in the United States shows a grim reality going on in our country.

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A recent study of federal data on fatal police shootings in the United States shows a grim reality for young Black men.

The analysis done by the non-profit group ProPublica showed that young Black men were 21 times more likely than their whites of being shot and killed by police.

The analysis, conducted over a study of more than 12,000 accounts of police homicides from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report during 1980 – 2012, focused in on the 1,1217 fatal shootings occurring between 2010 – 2012. An analysis of these homicides indicated that Black teens between the ages of 15 – 19 were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million.

Just 1.47 per million white males in the same age range were killed, according to the ProPublica findings.

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