Study: Target More Likely To Be Shot If Black
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If you’re black, you’re more likely to attract a bullet than if you’re white.
University of Illinois researchers Yara Mekawi and Konrad Bresin compiled findings from 42 studies on trigger bias to evaluate if race affects the likelihood of a target being shot, as reported by NPR.
“What we found is that it does,” Mekawi tells NPR. “In our study we found two main things: First, people were quicker to shoot black targets with a gun, relative to white targets with a gun. And… people were more trigger-happy when shooting black targets compared to shooting white targets.”
By trigger happy, Mekawi means that the shooters aren’t only quicker to fire at black targets, but they are also more likely to fire black targets to begin with.
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