Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people


The figures illustrate how disproportionately black Americans, who make up just 13% of the country’s total population according to census data, are killed by police. Composite: Guardian Design
Monday 1 June 2015
Guardian analysis finds 102 people killed by police so far this year were unarmed, and that agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by US government