United States racism
Mapping US police killings of Black Americans
Black Americans are two-and-a-half times as likely as white
Americans to be killed by police officers.
Between 2013 and 2019, police in the United States killed
7,666 people, according to data compiled by Mapping Police Violence, a research
and advocacy group. On May 25, 2020 at 9:25pm (02:25 GMT, May 26), George
Floyd, a 46-year-old resident of Minnesota, became yet another victim of police brutality as
he was killed in police custody while unarmed. Floyd's death has prompted
thousands of protesters to march in cities around the country demanding justice
and an end to police violence.
The number of police killings in the US disproportionately
affects African Americans. Despite only making up 13 percent of the US
population, Black Americans are two-and-a-half times as likely as white
Americans to be killed by the police.
The map below shows how disproportionate these killings are
across the US's 50 states.
Unsurprisingly, the three largest states - California, Texas
and Florida - have the highest total number of killings of Black people by
police officers. Once these figures are adjusted for the population size and
demographics, in nearly every state, African Americans face a significantly
higher risk of being killed by police officers than white Americans.
In Utah, the African Americans comprise just 1.06 percent of
the population but they accounted for 10 percent of police killings over the
past seven years - a disproportional rate of 9.21 times. In Minnesota, Black
Americans are nearly four times as likely to be killed by law enforcement, with
Black victims comprising 20 percent of those killed, despite comprising only 5
percent of the overall population.
Author: Mohammed Haddad
African Americans (also referred to as Black
Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans (North
Americans) ith total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial
groups of Africa. The phrase generally refers to descendants of enslaved black
people who are from the United States. There are about 40 million
Afro-Americans in the U.S. respresenting nearly 13% of the total population.
African Americans constitute the third largest ethnic group
and the second largest racial group in the US, after White Americans and Hispanic
and Latino Americans are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries
of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West/Central
African and European descent, and some also have Native ancestry. According
to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrnats generally do not
self-identify as African American. The overwhelming majority of African
immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities (≈95%). Immigrants
from some Caribbean, Central American and South American nations and their
descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term.[8]
African-American history starts in the 16th century,
with peoples from West Africa forcibly taken as slaves to Latin America,
and in the 17th century with West African slaves taken to English colonies in
North America. After the founding of the United States, black people continued
to be enslaved, and the last four million black slaves were only liberated after
the Civil War in 1865. Due to notions of white supremacy, they were
treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited
U.S. citizenship to whites only, and only white men who owned property could
vote. These circumstances were changed by participatio of black people n
in the military conflicts of the United States, the very partial elimination of
racial segregation and the civil rights movement which sought
political and social freedom. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American (not really “black American”
because he was not a descendant of
former slaves- his father came from Kenya) to be elected President of
the United States.
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