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Major Nikon

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1. The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans

Reply to ellenrr (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 06:27 PM

Dec 2014

..., followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites, and Asian Americans.

Native Americans, 0.8 percent of the population, comprise 1.9 percent of police killings. African Americans, 13 percent of the population, are victims in 26 percent of police shootings. Law enforcement kills African Americans at 2.8 times the rate of white non-Latinos, and 4.3 times the rate of Asians.

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