<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Richard, you’re 21 times more likely to be shot by a cop if you’re black. Great odds…If you’re white.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class="">Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class="">The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class="">Here’s the link:</div><div style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class=""><font color="#242424" class=""><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335737/-Propublica-Analysis-Young-Black-Men-21-Times-more-likely-to-be-Killed-by-Cops" class="">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335737/-Propublica-Analysis-Young-Black-Men-21-Times-more-likely-to-be-Killed-by-Cops</a></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);" class=""><font color="#242424" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>