https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/us/salt-lake-city-autism-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=17
Author: Khia Caze (Page 6 of 9)
Police brutality has been on the rise for a long time, and while African Americans make up the majority of victims, they are the most common target and are receiving more media coverage. The fact that the majority of victims of police abuse have a psychiatric illness or disability is something that isn’t getting enough attention. “Hundreds of people are killed by police in the US each year and much attention has been paid recently to the high proportion that are black. But there is another disturbing trend that is rarely discussed.” This is stated in the first sentence of the article by Aleem Maqbool, the author of the BBC news article, who introduces the article with this sentence. In this quote, Maqbool notes that the high number of black people killed by police receives more attention than the high number of police violence cases and that there is another pattern involving disabled people being killed by police that does not receive as much attention as black people receive as police brutality victims.
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