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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...
- Alia Chughtai
- Breonna Taylor
- Daniel Prude
- George Floyd
- Rayshard Brooks
- Dijon Kizzee
- Walter Wallace Jr.
- Jonathan Price
- Casey Goodson Jr.
- Andre Hill
Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was fatally shot when Louisville police executed a no-knock warrant at her apartment in March. Police said they did knock and announced themselves before knocking down the door with a battering ram. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, believing intruders were breaking in, fired his gun once, strik...
Daniel Prude died in March, days after police officers in Rochester, New York placed a hood over his head and pressed his face into the ground for two minutes. But the details of Prude's encounter were not known until police body camera footage was released almost six months later, triggering protests and calls for police reform. Prude's family has...
Floyd died on May 25 after a white Minneapolis officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes while he gasped for air. The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with murder and manslaughter and also faces a lawsuit from Floyd's family. Three other officers involved in Floyd's killing have also been charged. His death set off nationwide prot...
Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by a police officer in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia as the nation was still reeling from the unrest triggered by Floyd's killing. Body camera footage showed Brooks and officers having a calm conversationfor more than 40 minutes in the early hours of June 12, but the situation turned violen...
Kizzee was killed August 31 in Los Angelesafter sheriff's deputies tried to stop him for riding a bicycle in the wrong direction. Two deputies told investigators they fatally shot Kizzee after he picked up a handgun he'd dropped during a struggle with one of them. At a news conference, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said Kizzee wasn't holding...
Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old, was fatally shot by two Philadelphia police officers on the afternoon of October 26. The shooting took place after two officers responded to a residence to reports of a man with a knife. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Police Department said officers opened fire after ordering Wallace to drop the knife and that he had "...
Price was fatally shot by a police officer after trying to break up a fightat a gas station in Wolfe City, Texas, on October 3, according to his family and friends. Shaun Lucas, the white officer who shot 31-year-old Price, has been charged with murder after investigators determined his actions that night were not "objectionably reasonable."
Goodson was shot and killed by an Ohio sheriff's deputyon December 4. Authorities claimed he was waving a gun from his car in Northeast Columbus, but his family has insisted he was shot while returning home from a dentist appointment carrying a sandwich.
Hill, an unarmed Black man, was shot dead by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, on December 22. The officer, Adam Coy, was fired on Monday and remains under investigation. Body camera footage showed Coy fatally shooting 47-year-old Hill and failing to administer first aid for several minutes. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther condemned both killings o...
Sep 10, 2020 · Using databases from Mapping Police Violence and The Washington Post, CBS News has compiled a list of 164 Black men and women who were killed by police from January 1 to August 31, 2020. Many...
- CBS News
Jun 1, 2021 · Researchers documented the deaths of 32,542 people who have been killed by police since 2000, 60% of whom constitute people of color, who make up just 40% of the U.S. population.
Mar 3, 2022 · After all the attention the Black Lives Matter-led racial justice movement generated after George Floyd’s death in 2020, new data show that the number of Black people killed by police...
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Jan 25, 2021 · Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found. NPR reviewed police, court and other records to examine the...
Jun 30, 2020 · One of those efforts, Mapping Police Violence, shows that Black Americans were killed at three times the rate of white Americans from 2013 to 2019, when adjusted for population. In some...
