(Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)More videos, more shootingsIn 2016, fatal shootings by police are increasingly captured by cameras, a Post analysis shows. Rookies were rarely the ones to pull the trigger in fatal shootings over the first six months of 2016. A Post database that tracks fatal shootings by police shows a 6 percent increase in the number of such deaths during the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period last year. This week’s fatal shootings by police of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota have brought back the national outrage. As was the case in 2015, in most fatal shootings this year officers were confronted by subjects armed with guns.

Source: Washington Post July 07, 2016 19:09 UTC