A new investigation by In These Times explodes myths about who is most likely
to die at the hands of police by revealing that, compared to their percentage of
the U.S. population, Native Americans were more likely to be killed by police
than any other group, including African Americans. It also found that cases of
African-American police deaths tend to dominate headlines, while killings of
Native people go almost entirely unreported by mainstream U.S. media. We speak
with reporter Stephanie Woodard, who wrote the article, "The Police Killings No
One Is Talking About," and with James Rideout, the uncle of Jacqueline Salyers,
a 32-year-old pregnant mother and member of the Puyallup Tribe who was killed by
police earlier this year in Tacoma, Washington.
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