When Force is Hardest to Justify, Victims of Police Violence Are Most Likely to be Black

 

A Pew study found that 63% of white and 20% of black people think that Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Darren Wilson is not about race.

Those people are wrong.

African Americans are, in fact, far more likely to be killed by police. Among young men, blacks are 21 times more likely to die at the hands of police than their white counterparts.

 

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Source: thesocietypages.org

 

This diagram is depicting a slow moving genocide against Black Americans, and this graph does not take into account the over-incarceration of Black Americans.