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Are black suspects any more likely to be shot by the police in the US?
The recent killings of two African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana have once again fuelled a conversation about the issue of racism among US police officers. For a long time, the Black Lives Matter movement has expressed its anger over what it deems to be racial injustice in policing, but Howard Safir says their whole argument is based on a "false premise". He's a former commissioner of the New York City Police Department and spoke to 麻豆社 Newsday.
(Picture: demonstrators confront police during a protest in Chicago, Illinois back in 2015; Credits: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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