by Maggie Fox
Police killings are cutting short the lives of more people of color, researchers reported Monday.
While
just over half of people killed by police are white, Hispanics and
African-Americans are on average younger, the researchers found. And
people of black, Hispanic and Native American background are
disproportionately killed by police, they reported.
“Police
violence disproportionately impacts young people, and the young people
affected are disproportionately people of color,” Anthony Bui of the
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los
Angeles and colleagues wrote.
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Source: NBC News
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