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According to the Mapping Police Violence database, officers across the country have killed at least 229 Black people since Floyd's death in Minneapolis on May 25 last year. The vast majority...
The protests that have erupted in cities across the United States in the last week are a visceral response to two recent police killings of black Americans: Breonna Taylor in Louisville,...
Between 2014 and 2020, police in the United States killed at least 7,680 people. Twenty-five percent of those killed were Black, although Black Americans make up just 13 percent of the...
Justin Howell, Sean Monterrosa and Jamel Floyd. All of them are men of color who were injured or killed in incidents involving law enforcement officers this week. The killing of George...
Black people, who account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 27 percent of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit...
Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found.
The footage shows the Memphis police kicking, punching and using a baton on the 29-year-old Black man, who died days later. Five officers were fired and charged with murder.
