One in three people killed by American police are fleeing. In many cases, the encounters start as traffic stops or there are no allegations of violence or serious crimes. In the past seven years, police in America have killed more than 2,500 people who were fleeing, and those numbers have slightly increased in recent years, amounting to an average of roughly one killing a day of someone running or trying to escape. US police kill more people in days than many countries do in years, with roughly 1,100 killings a year since 2013. Black Americans make up 32% of individuals killed by police while fleeing, but only account for 13% of the US population. Black victims are even more overrepresented in cases involving people fleeing on foot, making up 35% to 54% of those killings. Police arrested the alleged Highland Park shooter, a White 21-year-old who opened fire on a Fourth of July parade with an assault rifle, killing 7 and wounding at least 47 others, peacefully without incident. The previous week, police shot 25-year-old Jayland Walker of Akron, Ohio after a minor traffic stop. Walker fled and the police shot him. The medical examiner found 60 bullet wounds (not a typo) in Walker’s body, which was handcuffed when it arrived at the coroner’s office. Walker was unarmed. He was Black. ‘Hunted’: one in three people killed by US police were fleeing, data reveals
