Despite stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic and months of protests against police brutality, Americans were still shot by police at the same rate in 2020 as in previous years
, published by the ACLU on Wednesday, shows that from 2015 to 2019, an average of 19.4 fatal police shootings occurred per week in the country over the first half of the year.
As of June 30, police officers had fatally shot 511 people, more than the 484 shot during the same period in 2019. Demographic breakdowns of the fatalities show police shootings disproportionately impact Black Americans.
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