Blacks made up 16.7 % of the civilians that were killed or suffered severe injury injured during incidents involving the discharge of a firearm or the use of force by police officers in 2021.
Between 2013 and 2019, police in the United States killed 7,666 people according to data provided by Mapping Police Violence, a research and advocacy group. The number of police killings in America disproportionately affects African Americans, who despite only making up 13 percent of the U.S. population, are two-and-a-half times as likely as whites to be killed by police.
An autopsy has found a man killed by a North Carolina police officer in July was shot nine times, including in the head, legs and one arm.
Tuesday, September 19, a candlelight vigil was held for 19-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine Carlos Segovia-Lopez who was shot in the head last week, after leaving his girlfriends home in South L.A.