Corona more deadly than armed conflict; 476 US police have been killed so far
According to data from an NGO (Officer Down Memorial Page) listing the number of law enforcement officers, prison police and police dogs who died during the implementation of the law, IRNA reported on Sunday. Police in the United States have killed five times as many people as armed conflict.
According to the NGO, 476 police officers have died as a result of Covid-19 since the start of the Corona virus outbreak, while 93 police officers have been killed in shootings in the same period. have been.
At the same time, many police officers across the United States are reportedly refusing to inject the Covid-19 vaccine and ignoring local vaccination orders.
Of the 476 police officers killed by Covid-19 so far, 245 are said to have died in 2020 and 231 in 2021.
“If so many policemen were killed on the streets of the United States as a result of the shooting, we would be witnessing a riot today,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Investigation Association in New York.
According to the latest statistics released to date, more than 45.7 million people in the United States have been infected with Covid-19, of which over 744,000 have died. Meanwhile, 57.3% of the US population has received both doses of the vaccine.
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