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Police are more likely to kill men and women of color

  • Written by Frank Edwards, Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Newark
Police are more likely to kill men and women of colorActivists rallied in New York City in July 2016 to protest police-involved shootings.a katz/Shutterstock.com

Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. Since then, U.S. police have killed more than 5,000 people.

Researchers and activists only know about these deaths because journalists do what the federal government...

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