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Where do you get your information that someone has been killed by the police? How do you know it is accurate?

If this project is completely unbiased, then why does the Twitter feed of "theCounted" often retweet when an unarmed black man was killed by police?

Why would you pick and choose certain news stories to retweet over others?

Why are you guys pretending that you are being 100% unbiased data collectors when it is obvious that this is an activist project to criticize the police?

Nothing. But these guys are not unbiased. And the way the number is presented as a counter is obviously a very loaded image. It gives the impression that the police are just killing tons of people unjustly, and you have to read the fine print to get to the truth.

Is it possible that Twitter activists who are against police killing black people (like the Black Lives Matter campaign) are more likely to search for incidents and report incidents to you guys because of their motivation?

Whereas you may get less reports of incidents when it involves the killing of a white person because there aren't nearly as many passionate people looking for statistics of white people killed by police.

Is it possible that those certain numbers could be under-reported?