The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.
«This suggests that the higher rates of fatal police shootings of unarmedblack victims are not merely a result of more interactions between police officers and blacksuspects,» said co-author Anita Knopov, a pre-doctoral fellow at BUSPH.