More than 1,300 people died at the hands of police in 2023, the most since the Mapping Police Violence project has kept records
Police across America killed a record 1,329 people in 2023, and Black people were nearly three times more likely to be slain than whites, according to the
Nix said he believes guns to be a factor in police shootings.
“When you ask human beings to go out and police a country awash with guns and train them and socialize them in their heads that a gun could be lurking around any corner, this is what you get,” Nix said.
Deaths in 2023 include Tyre Nichols, who died after Memphis cops severely beat him following a traffic stop; Dexter Wade, who died in Mississippi after a police officer in an SUV struck him with the vehicle and cops didn’t tell his mother what happened for months; and Steve Perkins, who police shot and killed in front of his Alabama home during a tow truck dispute.
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