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At least since the 1999 Bronx shooting (Fritsch, 2000) of unarmed Amadou Diallo by New York City police officers, social psychologists have had an interest in the dynamics of decisions to shoot or not shoot potentially dangerous suspects. Of key theoretical interest in subsequent research has been the confluence of split-second decisionmaking and the effects of racial stereotypes on response bias against Black targets. Our aim in this article is to replicate and extend prior research on this topic by testing the moderation of the Black-White decision bias by ingroup identification.Extant research literature illustrates a pronounced bias in the perception of weapons when participants complete a simulation of the decisions a police officer may be forced to make. In the standard experimental paradigm, participants are presented with images of Black and White targets who are holding either a weapon (e.g., gun or knife) or a benign object (e.g., cell phone, soda can). Their task is to identify, as quickly and as accurately as possible, which type of object the target is holding.

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