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Police pulled Hudspeth over for a traffic violation. An officer shot him after mistaking his cell phone for a gun. [152] April 26, 2003 Charquissa Johnson: 23 Washington, D.C. The circumstances surrounding Johnson's death is disputed. Police say Johnson was shot when she allegedly didn't drop a weapon.
When police encountered Johnson, he faced an officer and drew the weapon. He was ordered to drop the weapon, and was shot by police. 2021-01-15 Reginald Johnson (48) Black Mississippi (Biloxi) Police responded to a disturbance outside Harrison County Courthouse, where Johnson displayed a knife and advanced on a deputy, who then shot and killed him.
2023-01-31. Joseph Jones (32) White. Omaha, Nebraska. Police responded to reports of an active shooter at a Target store and killed Jones, who was carrying an AR-15 style rifle. Aside from Jones no casualties were reported, although shell casings indicated he had fired inside the store.
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
After all the attention the Black Lives Matter-led racial justice movement generated after George Floyd’s death in 2020, new data shows that the number of Black
MN v. Thao 27-CR-20-12949. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. [ 14] Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk alleged that he made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill. [ 15]
2. Black Americans are more than twice likely to be unarmed when killed during police encounters than whites. An analysis published by The Guardian in May found 32 percent of black people killed ...
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.