LONDON, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Data from a non-profit research group showed U.S. police officers had killed 249 people this year as of March 24, an average of about three deaths a day, The Guardian has reported.
According to the research group Mapping Police Violence, the killings mirrored "the deadly force trends of recent years," said the British newspaper on Wednesday.
U.S. police violence is typically reflected in the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who was suffocated to death after a white police officer had knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in Minneapolis, the U.S. state of Minnesota, in May 2020.
Data "suggests in the nearly two years since George Floyd's murder, the United States has made little progress in preventing deaths at the hands of law enforcement, and that the 2020 promises of systemic reforms have fallen short," experts were quoted as saying. ■