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> In the last 5 years police in the USA have killed twice the rate of white people than black people

That's a misleading way to use the term "rate". If you adjust for relative population size, the rate at which police shoot black people in the USA is disproportionately higher (over 2.5 times) than the rate at which they shoot white people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...



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