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- Study: Police are more likely to use violence on individuals stopped in the company of a Black man across gender, race, and ethnicity. Furthermore, police point their guns at Black men slightly more than at Black women. https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spac018/6563771?redirectedFrom=fulltext 113 comments science
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