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They re calling breonna s law, limiting these no-knock search warrants to cases involving an immediate threat of harm or death, which wasn t the case when this young woman was killed. david? all right, steve osunsami tonight. steve, thanks. we turn this evening to an abc news investigation with our abc stations. some eye-opening numbers when it comes to the arrests of african-americans across this country. what the numbers show. here s our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. reporter: akil carter was on his way home from church with his white grandmother when police pulled him over. the person in the car in the back seat, i need you to step out of the car with your hands up. reporter: he says the next thing he knew, guns were drawn and he was ordered out of the car. i was angry, i was nervous, i was terrified for my grandmother. stop. get down on your knees. on your knees. keep your hands up. don t move. you understand? ....
this is my grandson! reporter: akil was handcuffed, detained and put in the back of a squad car. when he was finally released, police simply said this was a misunderstanding. no apologies. in the suburb of milwaukee where akil was detained, blacks are only 5% of the population, but accounted for 62% of arrests made in 2018. a rate 29 times higher than white arrests. akil s encounter reflective of a broad pattern revealed in an abc news investigation with our owned stations. in 800 jurisdictions, black people were arrested at a rate five times higher than white people in 2018. when accounting for the racial makeup of the cities and counties those police serve. in 250 of those localities, blacks were ten times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts. we have to deal with the overpolicing of low income african-american communities in our country. it is a pervasive problem. reporter: david, we re seeing the same type of pattern in ....