The police in Minneapolis uses physical force on a black person nearly 60 percent of the time, who make up about 20 percent of the population.
The police in Minneapolis uses physical force on a black person nearly 60 percent of the time, who make up about 20 percent of the population.430,000 people are living in Minneapolis, out of which 20 percent of its population is black and 60 percent of its population is white. Data gathered from the city's figures shows that the police is Minneapolis uses force on a black person nearly 60 percent of the time. Since 2015, the Minneapolis police have documented using force about 11,500 times and for at least 6,650 acts of force, the subject of that force was black. In comparison, the police have used force about 2,750 times against white people.
Further, the data also reflects that since 2015, body-weight pinning has been used about 2,200 times against black people, more than twice the number of times it was used against whites. The city’s use-of-force policy includes chokeholds, which apply direct pressure to the front of the neck, but those are considered a deadly force to be used only in the most extreme circumstances. Neck restraints are also part of the policy.
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