Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Jun 15, 2025

Black people are murdered in the US once every 11 hours. They are murdered once every four hours in Brazil

154 murdered by police in USA in 2024 up to August 2nd (218th day) 2024

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

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People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024| Statista

The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with Black civilians having the highest rates of being killed by police.

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Show threadAudubon Ballroon (he/him)Jun 15, 2025

By 2021, only a third of departments’ fatal shootings appeared in the FBI database.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

154x3 = 462 black people actually murdered up to 218th day of 2024

218*24/462 = once every 11.3 hours

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Police shootings database 2015-2024: Search by race, age, department

Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics between January 2015 and December 2024, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.

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2154 murdered by police in Brazil in 2021

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1289733/number-deaths-civilians-by-police-by-state-race-brazil/

365*24/2154 = once every 4.1 hours

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Brazil: killings by the police by ethnicity and state 2023| Statista

In 2023, 690 black and pardo Brazilians were killed by security agents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Jun 15, 2025 at 10:12amWeb