Black men most frequent victims of killings by U.S. off-duty officers: YaleNews

NEW YORK, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Black men are the most common victims of killings committed by off-duty police officers in the United States, YaleNews on Wednesday cited a new study published in the journal Health Services Research.

In an analysis of 242 incidences in which people were killed by police officers when they were off duty between 2013 and 2021, a research team found that nearly 40 percent of the victims were Black men. White men (25.2 percent) and Hispanic men (11.2 percent) were the second- and third-most common victims.