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Demonstrators stand on top of a building with a likeness of George Floyd on a billboard behind them, on the one-year anniversary of Floyd's death, in Minneapolis
US POLICE killed 1,068 people in the 12 months from George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis on May 25 2020, Mapping Police Violence has reported.
The US campaign group said the figure equates to three killings a day. There have only been six days so far in 2021 where nobody has been killed by a US police officer, it added.
The number is similar to all recent years in the US, despite Mr Floyd’s murder and the killings of other police victims such as paramedic Breonna Taylor, shot dead by officers who raided her home at night, sparking the huge Black Lives Matter movement against police violence.
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