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Boston police walk near the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston as a new administration is sworn in, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021
POLICE officers have shot dead at least 135 unarmed black men and women in the past five years in the United Sates, according to a shocking new report by National Public Radio (NPR).
It found that at least 75 per cent of the officers responsible for the killings were white, many of whom acted with impunity.
For at least 15 of those officers, the deadly shootings were not their first, the NPR investigations found, a situation described as “unusual” by criminologist and Louisiana State University professor Peter Scharf.
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