MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The projected number for the whole year is two times what the FBI last estimated in 2013, with the number standing at 461 people at the time.
Among the 500 killed this year so far, almost a half (49.6 percent) were white, while 28.2 percent were black and 14.8 percent were Hispanic, according to the newspaper’s estimates released Wednesday.
Almost every fifth person (21.6 percent) killed in the United States by law enforcers was not armed.
The Guardian reported that 30.5 percent of white people killed had no weapon, with 16.1 percent of black people killed by US police being unarmed.
It is mostly men who have become victims at the hands of police as they constituted 95.2 percent of the 500 killed in 2015 thus far. Only 4.8 percent were women.
Police brutality and racial profiling continue to be acute social problems in the United States. The issues have made headlines as multiple protests, often violent in nature, have swept the country.
