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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.


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