Here's the latest on what we know from researchers who study racial bias in policing:
since 2015, has come to similar conclusions about police officers disproportionately killing black Americans.
Still, he said, Floyd"epitomizes a vulnerable person who posed zero risk to the officer who killed him by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes." "We know more about fatal force than we do non-fatal force," said Justin Nix, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
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