Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people

The figures illustrate how disproportionately black Americans, who make up just 13% of the country’s total population according to census data, are killed by police. Composite: Guardian Design

Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Jamiles Lartey in New York

Monday 1 June 2015

Guardian analysis finds 102 people killed by police so far this year were unarmed, and that agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by US government

• The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive

Black Americans Killed by Police Twice as Likely to Be Unarmed as White People by Thavam Ratna