American police officers killed 74 unarmed black people in 2015.

From January through July unarmed black men were 7 times more likely than unarmed white men to die from police gunfire.

From 2010 to 2012 police killed black men ages 15 to 19 at a rate 21 times greater than the statistic for white men the same age

A black person is about four times as likely to die in custody or while being arrested than a white person. |