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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by cammikebrown on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:03PM (#28460849)
I went ahead and looked it up. According to google, in the US 650 die falling out of bed per year[1], while about 1000 are killed by police, about 20-25% of those police victims being black (while the US black population is around 14%).[2]

Falling deaths are quite common among the elderly. Police shootings, not so much.

  https://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:38PM (#28461319)
He said unarmed people. Those 1000 are mostly all armed.

There were 14 unarmed black victims and 25 unarmed white victims in 2019.

The number of unarmed black shooting victims is down 63% from 2015, when the database began.

The 14 unarmed victims in fatal police shootings would comprise only 0.2% of black homicides.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-ho...

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