White Men's Lives Matter - How Many People Are Killed By Police In The US?

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Almost 1000 people in the U.S. have been shot and killed by police in 2018. In 2017 and 2016, about an equal amount of people died this way, according to the Washington Post. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the below infographic, most of those killed by police are male and white.

While around 450 of the deceased were white, 229 were Black. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that race group.



Around half of those shot and killed by police carried a gun themselves. But in the case of more than a hundred people, they were either unarmed or it is unknown if they carried a weapon. In 35 cases, the deceased had been seen with a toy weapon that was mistaken for the real thing.

Out of the nearly 1000 killed, more than 200 were listed as having shown signs of mental illness.

https://www.statista.com/chart/5211/...y-police-2016/

[TheMaestro]

Why do you care what happens in the US, they have their own life, very different to ours.

[Samnium]

By the way a black american has most chance to be killed by another black american rather than be killed by a white person.

[KMack]

Sometimes they have no choice. 2 days ago

[coolfrenchguy]

Sometimes they have no choice. 2 days ago

welcome to zombieland,seems to be crack or meth users,this shit is everywhere in the american nightmare and when a wacko is on crack or meth,sure, than there is just a few alternatives,but the "cowboy" mindset sucks,there is other ways than using lethal weapons,in the US it seems than cops are afraid,seriously they are very badly trained to deal with they fears they are paranoid,but all the cops are badly trained,they are too on the rush and they are not trained to defuse situations in pure zen and calm,to see with there inner and not there eyes,it's why than there is so much innocent people killed