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79% of people killed by police in Brazil are black -UN

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, today denounced that the number of people of African descent killed by police remains disproportionately high in many countries such as Brazil and the United States.

Taking stock at the Human Rights Council today, she pointed out that in the United States, civil society groups have cited a figure of 266 police killings of people of African descent by 2021, suggesting that they are "nearly three times as likely to be killed by police as whites." Other research suggests the number could be even higher.

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