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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlack kids 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police than white kids, study says
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Black kids 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police than white kids, study says
Black kids 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police than white kids, study says
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Over the course of 16 years, more than 100 children have been shot and killed by police, with deaths skewing significantly toward Black and Hispanic kids, a new study found.
National death certificate data for children ages 12 to 17 reveal that Black kids were six times more likely to be fatally shot by police during legal interventions, while Hispanic childrens risk of death was almost three times higher compared to white adolescents....
Any death of a child is devastating but when it is due to police violence, it leads to distrust in the system and undermines the primary mission to protect, Goyal said in a news release. The pattern of stark racial and ethnic disparities only adds to this tragedy, further oppressing and alienating communities of color. Its important to investigate, identify and correct those policies and personnel that perpetuate and exacerbate these disparities....
A legal intervention refers to deaths due to injuries inflicted by police or other law enforcement agents ... in the course of arresting or attempting to arrest lawbreakers, suppressing disturbances, maintaining order, and performing other legal actions, according to the CDC.
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Black kids 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police than white kids, study says (Original Post)
soothsayer
Nov 2020
OP
No crap. There were lots of black kids throughout slavery and during the Jim Crow era.
turtleblossom
Nov 2020
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turtleblossom
(504 posts)1. No crap. There were lots of black kids throughout slavery and during the Jim Crow era.
That part hasn't change. What's changed is we see can see some of it live on video.
electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)2. And this is a surprise?!
(sorry) (not necessarily to anyone here)
I know some people need to have a mile high stack of statistical proof. While others won't believe it no matter what is said. Or come up w some 'they "desreved" it excuse.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,151 posts)3. This is not reformable.