Black Men Are 3 Times More Likely To Be Killed By Police Over Their Lifetime Than White Men!

Police force is the sixth leading cause of death among young men, according to researchers who found black men are 3 times more likely than white men to be victims of this form of violence.



American Indian and Alaskan Native women are 1.5 times more likely to be killed than white women, according to a study published in the journal PNAS. And black women; American Indian and Alaskan Native men; and Latino men are at 1.4 times greater risk of being killed by police force than their white peers. However, Latina women and Asian/Pacific Islanders are less likely to be killed than their white counterparts.



Between 2013 to 2017, 11,456 fatal encounters with police and members of the public were reported. That includes the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and boys like Tamir Rice, which were protested against by members of the Black Lives Matter movement.



Deaths linked to police violence were the sixth biggest killer in the the U.S. for men aged between 25 and 29, after accidents including overdoses and traffic fatalities; suicide; homicides; heart disease; and cancer. Over the course of their lives, men were found to have a 1 in 2,000 chance of being killed by a police officer in the U.S., falling to 1 in 33,000 for women. Posted By Ghost