article_snippet.sent: A ProPublica analysis of police shootings from 2010 to 2012 found that young black males are 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by the police than young white males.  
article_snippet.sent: And 67% of teens killed while fleeing or resisting arrest were black.
article_snippet.sent: Of the whites who are killed by cops, 91% are killed by white cops.
article_snippet.sent: Sixty-eight percent of people of color who are killed by police are also killed by white officers.  
article_snippet.sent: Furthermore, 10% of police involved in fatal shootings are black, and 78% of the people killed by black officers are black.
article_snippet.sent: According to Cynthia Lee of George Washington University Law School, the disproportionate representation of blacks and other people of color in police shootings is due to the role of racial stereotypes by police.  
article_snippet.sent: Racial stereotypes, Cynthia Lee of George Washington University Law School argues, subconsciously influence an officer's decision on whether to use deadly force, even if the police do not consciously decide to use deadly force based on race.  
article_snippet.sent: A simple question posed to an officer by a black person could be perceived as a threat to an officer's authority.
article_snippet.sent: What's more, a Washington State University study on deadly force found that participants felt more threatened in scenarios involving black suspects, suggesting participants "held subconscious biases associating blacks and threats.