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U.S. police have shot dead 385 people in five months
U.S. police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than two a day, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The death rate is more than twice that tallied by the federal government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is incomplete, the newspaper said.
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Now if we only had body camera recordings of all these deaths.
I will bet that less that 10% were justified in any way.
Maybe not as low as 10% (the are still crazies out there that will do anything to get away, etc) but I can see a considerable chunk of those people doing something semi-threatening only to trigger a deadly reaction. Those body cameras are needed yesterday damn it.