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135 Unarmed Black People Were Killed by Police Officers with Previous Offenses of Violent Misconduct Since 2015. What the Data Tells Us

An NPR study from January revealed some unsurprising, yet troubling data on police violence against unarmed Black Americans.

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Donney Rose
Mar 22, 2021
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Back in late January, NPR released devastating but unsurprising information about American police shootings of unarmed Black people. Cheryl W. Thompson, an investigative correspondent for NPR with over two decades of experience writing about law enforcement, political corruption, and was also a White House correspondent…

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