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Jun 1, 2021 · A major new report on police killings suggests far more people of color have been killed by police than previously known. The report by the Raza Database Project and UnidosUS found at least 2,600 ...
2020-06-15. Nicholas Hirsh (31) Caucasian/White. Kansas (Lawrence) Hirsh was shot and killed by Kansas Highway Patrol officers pursuing Hirsh for a first-degree murder arrest warrant. According to police statements, Hirsh stole a car and pointed a gun at officers during pursuit, at which point he was shot and killed.
Apr 30, 2021 · This report looked at unrest in the 68 largest municipal and county jurisdictions in the United States and Canada from May 25, 2020 to July 31, 2020. MCCA members say they experienced 8,700 total protest events during that roughly two-month period. One city, unidentified but likely Portland, reported 1,100 protest events during that period.
Apr 22, 2021 · 9 August 2014: Michael Brown. Getty Images. The killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri ...
- 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...
Apr 15, 2024 · Black people are 2.9x more likely to be killed by police than white people in. the U.S. . Police killings per 1 million people in the U.S., 2013– 2024. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Black Native American Hispanic White Asian 110 79 killing s 44 36 27 9.1. Race and ethnicity population data from the 2020 Decennial Census.
Jun 8, 2020 · Police dashboard camera footage of the shooting showed that the 17-year-old was moving away from Van Dyke when he began firing. But the video footage remained hidden by Chicago officials for more ...
