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Bias is killing

Why police kill a disproportionate number of black people

Patrick Heller
3 min readJun 11, 2020

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In the US, disproportionately more black people are being killed than white people by police officers. In 2019, for instance, police in the United States of America killed 1,098 people, which in itself is a staggering number, especially compared to most of the rest of the world. Of the people killed by US police, 24% was black, while only…

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