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US police have already killed over 700 people in 2022, on track to break record
US police have killed more people through the first seven months of the year than they have any other year on record, a study shows, pointing out Black people are three times as likely as white people to get killed by police.
According to the Mapping Police Violence database, US police officers have killed over 700 people in 2022 and are on track to kill more people this year than in any year since the project began tracking police killings in 2013.
“Without transformative changes to interrupt the current trajectory of police violence, another ~440 people will likely be killed by police before the year ends,” database founder Samuel Sinyangwe wrote in a tweet.
Since 2013, the data has also found that Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people, while police kill Black people at a higher rate than white people in 48 of the country’s 50 largest cities.
Just one in three police killings begins with an alleged violent crime, according to database.
The other two thirds, the vast majority, begin with things like traffic stops, mental health crises, and alleged non-violent crimes.
Some people were shot in the back while running and others were passengers in fleeing cars, the data showed.
In the past seven years, police have killed more than 2,500 people who were fleeing, and those numbers have slightly increased in recent years, amounting to an average of roughly one killing a day of someone running or trying to escape.
But rarely are police charged or found criminally liable — convictions in only nine of these 2,500 cases.
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/20...-year-than-they-have-any-other-year-on-record
So what's the best way to avoid getting killed by a cop ?
Don't go out ?
Wear body armor at all times ?
Never submit ?
Shoot the cops first ?
Defund the bastards ?
Ban all guns , cops included ?
Leave America ?
Join 'em ?
This death toll is appalling. It's legalized fucking carnage.