Number of Native Americans Killed By Police Rises - Again

A pregnant Native American mother of three suffering from a psychological condition was shot and killed by police Friday, increasing the number of indigenous people killed by authorities this year.

Kings Country Sheriff's responded to the home of Renee Davis, 23, on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation in Washington on a wellness check after Davis's friend called police, KOMO News reported. Davis, who suffered from depression, had texted her friend that she was in "a bad way," Nina Shapiro of The Seattle Times reported.

Fourteen Native Americans have been killed by police so far this year, compared with 10 in all of 2015, according to The Counted, a log of officer-involved shootings tabulated by The Guardian.

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