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

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis
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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
Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white people, according to a Guardian investigation which found 102 of 464 people killed so far this year in incidents with law enforcement officers were not carrying weapons.

An analysis of public records, local news reports and Guardian reporting found that 32% of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25% of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15% of white people killed.

The findings emerged from a database filled by a five-month study of police fatalities in the US, which calculated that local and state police and federal law enforcement agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by the US government’s official public record of police homicides. The database names five people whose names have not been publicly released.

[Eleanors38]

1. A curious but not unexpected outgrowth of gun-control policies...

I realize this OP may not be about the issues attendant to gun-control, but a fuller understanding must include the cultural and political factors underwriting who is armed or not, and whether or not LEOs are aware of this.