The ones prompting the loudest outcries often involve people who are black, unarmed, or both, shootings that have brought the harshest scrutiny onto police. Since The Post began tracking the shootings, black people have been shot and killed by police at disproportionate rates — both in terms of overall shootings and the shootings of unarmed Americans. ADIn 2015, the first year The Post tallied these numbers, officers killed 94 unarmed people, the largest group among them black men: 38. For example, shootings of unarmed black people in 2019 increased from nine to 15. It happened in November 2014 in Cleveland, where a police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2020 12:47 UTC