Samuelson Young News Today

Themselves after. >> joining me now, samuelson young, a researcher and analyst who studies police shootings in america. and samuels, i know its tough to find toile numbers. there seems to be at least anecdotally, more officer-involved shootings recently. what do your numbers show you? >> so first, thanks for having me. what weve seen by comparing the most comprehensive databases out there, which are the killed by police database and the fatal encounters database, and coding for race weve been ab...

That actually these numbers are nationwide. indeed ferguson is everywhere. but what weve also found, there are particular places where police violence and police killings are more severe than other places. >> how do you mean targeted specifically? let me push you on that. >> by targeted i mean police are overpolicing in black and brown communities, in particular in black communities. we know that police are more likely to kill unarmed black people compared to unarmed white people or people of ot...