nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor3 89S7|||Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.

Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, "Hands up, don't shoot" on Aug. 17, 2014, as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.



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America Reckons With Racial Injustice

Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns

Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.