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Police held Bean down on the ground and handcuffed him after responding to a report of a man acting erratically. Bean fell unconscious and died in a police vehicle. [271] September 17, 2010 David Smith: 28 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Police responded to a YMCA when staff reported Smith, who had bipolar disorder, was acting odd. Police handcuffed ...
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]
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–present) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center ...
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 ...
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
Sam Sinyangwe, founder of the Mapping Police Violence project, stated in 2015 that "black people are three times more likely to be killed by police in the United States than white people. More unarmed black people were killed by police than unarmed white people last year, even though only 14% of the population are black people."
On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him. Nichols broke free and ran toward ...
Lawsuit filed against city and officers for $61 million; settled for $3 million. Daniels, et al. v. the City of New York (class-action lawsuit) In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York ...