BBC Our World - Don't Shoot, I'm Disabled (2018)

Hundreds of people are killed by the police in the US each year. Much of the media attention has been on the race of victims, but there is another pattern to the deaths. A large number of those killed in interactions with police had a disability and many of the dead had been living with a serious mental illness, learning difficulties or a physical disability. North America Correspondent Aleem Maqbool investigates some of the recent incidents.

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