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A consistent subset of people fatally shot by police are women. Since 2015, police have fatally shot nearly 250 women. LIke Breyonna Taylor 89 of them ere killed at homes or residences where they sometimes stayed. The names of these women are often not as well known as the men, but their deaths raise the same questions about the use of deadly force by police.
Although Black women only account for 13 percent of the female population account for 20 percent of the women shot and killed and 28 percent of the unarmed deaths.