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25 actual facts about police brutality in America

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1. The number of people killed by police in 2014: 1,149, according to Mapping Police Violence, a research collaborative collecting data on police killings nationwide.

2. The number of people killed by police so far in 2015: 470, according to the Guardian.

3. The percentage of those people who were women: 4.6%, or 22 people, according to the Guardian.

4. Of those women, the percentage who were women of color: roughly 41%, or 9 people, according to the Guardian.

5. The number of people killed by police so far in June: 4.

6. The state where two of the four shootings took place this month: Texas.

7. The likelihood that a black person killed by police, like 22-year-old Rekia Boyd (killed in Chicago), will be unarmed: Twice as likely as a white person killed by police, according to the Guardian.

8. The group as likely as black Americans to be killed by police, according to 1999-2013 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Native Americans — like 30-year-old Allen Locke, who was killed by police in Rapid City, South Dakota the day after he attended a #NativeLivesMatter Anti-Police Brutality Rally in December 2014.

9. The number of Latino people killed by police in 2015: 67, according the Guardian.

10: The percentage of those people who were unarmed, like 16-year-old Jesse Hernandez (killed by police in Denver in January 2015): 25%.

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