A new study has found that there was no racial bias when examining shootings by law enforcement officers involving white and black subjects.
The results of the study contradicts the image portrayed of police shootings in the media in the wake of high profile incidents including the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Laquan McDonald in Chicago, according to The New York Times.
"It is the most surprising result of my career," Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard, told the newspaper.
The study examined more than 1,000 shootings in 10 police departments, in Texas, Florida and California.
The study did find that black men and women are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer.
