US data shows police kill 3 people a day this year

US data shows police kill 3 people a day this year
April 1, 2022, 9:52 am

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The Xinhua reported, citing The Guardian, data from a non-profit research group showed U.S. police officers had killed 249 people this year as of March 24, an average of about three deaths a day.

According to the research group Mapping Police Violence, the British newspaper reported on Wednesday, the killings mirrored "the deadly force trends of recent years."

U.S. police violence is typically reflected in the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who was suffocated to death after a white police officer had knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in Minneapolis, the U.S. state of Minnesota, in May 2020.

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Experts were quoted as saying, data "suggests in the nearly two years since George Floyd's murder, the United States has made little progress in preventing deaths at the hands of law enforcement, and that the 2020 promises of systemic reforms have fallen short."

Source: xinhua

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