A consistent subset of people fatally shot by police are women. Since 2015, police have fatally shot 250 women. Like Breonna Taylor 89 of them were killed at homes or residences where they sometimes stayed. The names of these women are often not 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 per cent of the female population, they account for 20 per cent of the women shot and killed and 28 per cent of the unarmed deaths.
