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Philadelphia Police Shooting Victims are 81% African-American, Report Finds

(The Guardian) – Philadelphia police shot black people at about twice the rate of their occurrence in the general population, according to a new federal study. Eighty-one percent of people shot by police officers in Philadelphia from 2007 to 2013 were African American, despite black people accounting for just more than 40% of the city’s population, the study […]