Within six months of 2017, American police shot and killed 492 people, estimated publication of the Washington Post. This figure practically coincides with the data for similar periods in the past two years.
Washington Post reporters decided to count the number of people killed by police, after 2014, in Ferguson (Missouri) guard was shot dead unarmed teenager Michael brown. His death led to protests that were held in 28 States and the riots.
Journalists claim that their lists for 2015 and 2016 was in two times more cases of skirmishes with the police than in the same reports the FBI.
This year, as in previous, most of those killed by police is a white male, armed with small arms or other weapons. Every fourth shot in 2017 had mental problems. The number of dead African Americans made up 25 percent, but they account for only 6 percent of the U.S. population.
Over half of 2017 has decreased the number of unarmed people shot dead by police — there were 27. In the first half of 2016 were killed 34 unarmed, and in 2015-m — 50. Thus, most of those killed unarmed African Americans.