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Grimmitt was killed and his brother was wounded when the vehicle crashed. Cooperstein, who had been accused of creating a racist website towards black people, was charged with homicide and assault but was acquitted. [95] December 29, 1998 Franklyn Reid: 27 New Milford, Connecticut
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]
Among those killed, 3,878 were armed with a gun, 1,119 were armed with a knife, 218 were armed with a vehicle, 244 had a toy weapon, and 421 were unarmed. [ 11] A research brief by the Police Integrity Research Group of Bowling Green State University found that between 2005 and 2019, 104 nonfederal law enforcement officers had been arrested for ...
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 ...
As a percentage of the U.S. population, black Americans were 2.5 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police in 2015. [48] A 2015 study found that unarmed black people were 3.49 times more likely to be shot by police than were unarmed white people. [49]
Killing of Elijah McClain. Elijah Jovan McClain (February 25, 1996 – August 30, 2019) was a 23-year-old American Black man from Aurora, Colorado, who was killed as a result of being illegally [ 1] injected with 500 mg of ketamine by paramedics after being forcibly detained by police officers.
Delaware (Wilmington) Police body cam video shows Moses driving away from police in his vehicle, making a U-turn, and then driving toward police at a high speed. Police then fired on his vehicle. [11] 2021-01-10. Allen Mirzayan (48) White. California (Altadena) Shot by law enforcement near 481 Figueroa Drive.
In 2022 alone, police killed 1,192 people, more than any year in the past decade, according to a new report released last week by nonprofit Mapping Police Violence. Black people accounted for more ...