A police officer holds a baton during a protest over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd, May 29, 2020, in Atlanta. Photo credit Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
From 1980 to 2019, there were 30,800 deaths from police violence, which is 17,100 more deaths than the NVSS reported, according to the study by researchers from the University of Washington and published in the Lancet. [https://www.thelancet.com/ – report URL TK]
“Even when unarmed, Black Americans experienced disproportionately high levels of police contact, even for crimes that Black and white folks committed at the same rates,” Wool told ABC News.
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