2,216 Black Americans were killed by the police through 2013-2021 compared to 3,886 Whites and 1,365 Hispanics—representing the highest murder rate in the U.S. Black Americans represented 28% of people killed by the police in 2020 despite being only 13% of the U.S. population. Only in January 2020, the police killed 30 Blacks or one Black American every day. The number of Blacks killed by the police stands at higher rates than of Whites in 47 of the 50 largest American cities—with Chicago leading the list.
Sebahate J. Shala
January. 2020. Jamarri Tarver, 26, Las Vegas, NV. Tyree Davis, 25, Chicago, IL. Tina Marie Davis, 53, Spring Valley, NY.Brandon Dionte Roberts, 27, Milford, DE. Kwame Jones, 17, Jacksonville, FL. Miciah Lee, 18, Sparks, NV. Claude Washington Fain III, 47, Philadelphia, PA. Earl Facey, 37, New York, NY. Henry Isaac Jones, 47, Bainbridge, GA. Ryan Simms, 49, Miami Beach, FL. Keenan McCain, 29, Gary, IN. Albert Lee Hughes, 47, Lawrenceville, GA. Renard Antonio Daniels, 55, Cocoa, FL. Mubarak Soulemane, 19, West Haven, CT. Samuel David Mallard, 19, Powder Springs, GA. Kelvin White, 42, Chesapeake, VA. Gamel Antonio Brown, 30, Owings Mills, MD. Darius J. Tarver, 23, Denton, TX. Reginald Leon Boston Jr., 20, Jacksonville, FL. Michael J. Rivera, 32, Bloomingdale, NJ. Andrew J. Smyrna, 32, Atlanta, GA. Deandre Lee Seaborough-Patterson, 22, Savannah, GA. Marquis Golden, 29, St. Petersburg, FL. Joshua James Brown, 34, Columbus, OH. D’ovion Semaj Perkins, 19, Aurora, CO. William Howard Green Jr., 43, Marlow Heights, MD. Jaquyn O’Neill Light, 20, Graham, NC. Keith Dutree Collins, 52, Raleigh, NC. Abdirahman Salad, 15, Columbus, OH.
[…] Breonna Taylor, 26, Louisville, KY. […] George Floyd, 46, Minneapolis, MN.
29 Black Americans were killed by the police only in January 2020. Which means one Black every day—except on January 1st and 31st. According to CBS News list, which relies in reported and verified cases, the U.S. police killed 164 Black people through January 1—August 31, 2020—or one Black every week since January 1st, with only two states—Rhode Island and Vermont—recording zero killings during the reported period. In total, Black Americans, as Mapping Police Violence indicates, represented 28% of people killed by the police in 2020 despite being only 13% of the U.S. population. The number of Blacks killed by the police stands at higher rates than that of Whites in 47 of the 50 largest American cities—with Chicago leading the list: the Chicago police killed Black people at 20x the rate of White people per population from 2013 to 2020.
In total, 2,216 Black Americans, according to Statista Department Research, were killed by the police from 2013 to 2021 comparing to 3,886 Whites and 1,365 Hispanics. Of 1,021 persons killed in 2020, 241 were Blacks as opposed to 457 Whites and 167 Hispanics; of 1,098 people killed in 2019, 259 were Blacks, 406 Whites, 182 Hispanics and 13 Native Americans; 258 of 1,143 people killed in 2018 were Blacks; 276 in 2017 of 1,095 people killed; 279 were Blacks in 2016 of 1,071 people killed; 305 in 2015 of 1,103 people killed, 277 in 2014, respectively 291 in 2013. The rate of Black people killed by the police through 2015-2021 is much higher than any other ethnicity, standing at 36 per million for Black people, 23 per million for Hispanics and 12 per million for Whites.
Generally, Black people, based on Mapping Police Violence data, are three times more likely to be killed by the police and 1.3 times more likely to be unarmed than the White people: 17% of unarmed Blacks, 13% of Whites, and 14.5% of unarmed Hispanics were killed by the police between 2013 and 2020. Unfortunately, the trend of fatal police shootings, as Statista Department Research suggests, is on increase—totaling at 213 Americans killed only in the first three months of 2021, 30 of whom were Black. Based on the Mapping Police Violence updated list, the police killed 352 people in 2021—in a rate similar to the past years—with only three days without having killed someone.
In a study published last year, researchers of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania found that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) victims, whether armed or unarmed, have significantly higher death rates compared to Whites. Analyzing 4,653 fatal shootings by the police, researchers found a small but statistically significant decline in White deaths (about 1%) but no significant change in deaths for BIPOC at all. Black people were killed at 2.6 times the rate of White people (1,265 total killed), while Hispanics were killed at nearly 1.3 times the rate of White people (889 total killed). Among unarmed victims, Black people were killed at three times the rate (218 total killed), and Hispanics at 1.45 times the rate of White people (146 total killed). While the average age of those killed by the police is 34, for Black people, the average age is 30, for Hispanics 33, and for White people is 38.
Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women and men, too, are significantly more likely to be killed by the police than White women and men or about one Black in every 1,000, a study of Edwards, Lee, and Esposito shows. Likewise, Latino men are more likely to be killed by police than White men. Regretfully, the police violence, as Mapping Police Violence indicates, is not related to crime at all. In most cases, the killings begin with traffic stops, mental health checks, domestic disturbances, or reported low level offenses. And the worst thing is that there is no accountability for these killings: 98.3% of killings by police from 2013-2020 went without being prosecuted.
Racial profiling has been an issue in United States of America. 2020 marked one of the worst years, following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN—two months after the killing of Breonna Taylor in her apartment in Louisville, KY—actions those that led to massive protests and demonstrations across the U.S. and worldwide. Finally, the Minneapolis police officer who killed Floyd, Derek Chauvin, was found guilty, a verdict with which agree three-quarters of Americans, according to a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, whilst about half of Republicans and Trump supporters think it was either the wrong decision or they aren’t sure. This polling, also, shows that White and Black Americans have very different views of race in America and have had very different experiences when it comes to dealing with discrimination and trusting police.
Police. Stop. Killing. Black. People!
THE POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE—MUST END—ONCE AND FOR ALL.
WAR AND PEACE 