Americans have a 2.8% fatality rate due to police brutality than white
ongoing violence against Black people around the country, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. We have over 2,200 units and branches across the nation, along with well over 2M activists.
Americans. 1,005 people have been shot and killed by police in 2020.
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32% of black
NAACP Founded in 1909 in response to the
The rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 32 fatal shootings per million of 2020.
RATE OF MORTALITY DUE TO POLICE BRUTALITY
Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 809 civilians having been shot, 157 of whom were Black, as of October 30, 2020. In 2018, there were 996 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 this
Asian 10%
White 15%
When Michael Brown was shot to death by a white
figure increased to 1,004.
23%
Hispanic
32%
Black When unarmed peaceful civilians are killed by
police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August
the police, they are being killed by agents of the
2014, it awakened a movement that began with
government that is supposed to represent them.
the previous killing of another black teenager,
It is this failure of government that must
Trayvon Martin.
be addressed.