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The research is clear: White people are not more likely than Black people to be killed by police.
When President Donald Trump responded to a question about Black people who have died at the hands of U.S. law enforcement by focusing his attention on white victims, he was engaging in a “grotesque” misdirection, says Matt Miller, a Northeastern professor who studies gun violence. “Black people are more likely to be killed per capita by law enforcement than are white people,” Miller says.
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It's more than a little ironic that the Professor would say something like that since that's exactly what he's doing.
He is right on one thing, the research is clear. It's a racial group's rate of violent crime that is ultimately the determining factor in the rate of police shootings. That's been confirmed by multiple studies time and time again, yet because it destroys the narrative it's ignored.