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You're misinterpreting the facts. Black people are more likely to be killed by police - they're not more in number because they're only 13% of the population [1]. The problem is the power of police unions and qualified immunity which is a legal construct made to be abused.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-cle...

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I misinterpreted nothing: more white people are being killed by police than black people [1][2]. Which part are you challenging?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

Again, adjust for population.

> Results: Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

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