People in U.S. Killed by Cops Now Outnumber U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq War

The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of  people murdered by police has reached 5,000.

The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4,489.

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*UPDATE* these murders may be disproportionally targeting people of color, particularly Black people. For example, 313 Black people were extrajudicial killed by law enforcement in 2012, which averages to about every 28 hours that a Black person was killed by police in that year alone.