Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 427 civilians having been shot, 17 of whom were Black, as of June 2022. In 2021, there were 1,055 fatal police shootings, and in 2020 there were 1,021 fatal shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 39 fatal shootings per million of the population as of June 2022.
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Washington Post. (June 1, 2022). Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by race [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 29, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/?fbclid=IwAR19SQ1wKeCqUH51sIzh7Lq_csiEebkNLBg3eBQdVeu3elDrASchgtb1tGc
Washington Post. "Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by race." Chart. June 1, 2022. Statista. Accessed June 29, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/?fbclid=IwAR19SQ1wKeCqUH51sIzh7Lq_csiEebkNLBg3eBQdVeu3elDrASchgtb1tGc
Washington Post. (2022). Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by race. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 29, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/?fbclid=IwAR19SQ1wKeCqUH51sIzh7Lq_csiEebkNLBg3eBQdVeu3elDrASchgtb1tGc
Washington Post. "Number of People Shot to Death by The Police in The United States from 2017 to 2022, by Race." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/?fbclid=IwAR19SQ1wKeCqUH51sIzh7Lq_csiEebkNLBg3eBQdVeu3elDrASchgtb1tGc
Washington Post, Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by race Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/?fbclid=IwAR19SQ1wKeCqUH51sIzh7Lq_csiEebkNLBg3eBQdVeu3elDrASchgtb1tGc (last visited June 29, 2022)