Since 2015,
police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black
men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found.
NPR reviewed police, court and other records to examine the
details of the cases. At least 75% of the officers were
white. The latest one happened this month in Killeen, Texas,
when Patrick Warren Sr., 52, was fatally shot by an officer
responding to a mental health call.
For at
least 15 of the officers …, the shootings were not their
first or their last, NPR found. They have been involved
in two sometimes three or more shootings, often
deadly and without consequences.
In
fact: