Fact-check: “Police are more likely to use lethal force when arresting black people than when arresting white people.”
Verdict: Misleading (45% confidence)
At the population level, Black Americans die from police legal interventions at roughly 2.8–3.5 times the rate of white Americans, and a large body of research documents this disparity. But the claim specifies a conditional basis — 'when arresting' — and the peer-reviewed literature on that specific denominator (lethal force per arrest or encounter) is genuinely split: some studies using arrest-conditional methods find no statistically significant racial disparity or even a reverse pattern, whi…
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