VICTIMS

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2021	ARNOLD Shantel – TOLEDO Adam –
2020	BLAKE Jacob – BLEVENS Tyler – CAMERON Linden – CULBERTSON Michael – DUJUAN GLASS Kanavis – FARSE YOUNG Glenn – FLOYD George – GARCIA James – GOODSON Casey Christoper Jr. – HILL Andre – KAY Deon – KING Grant – LITTLETON Hakim – MORRISON Rodney – NAZARIO Caron – NORTON Kevin – PELLERIN Trayford – PRUDE Daniel – QUINTO Angelo – RYANS Jeffery – REINOEHL Michael – SAENZ Brandon – SALGADO Erik – SMALLMAN Kevin – TAYLOR Breonna – THURMAN Terena – YOUNG Rickia
2019	GREENE Ronald – McCLAIN Elijah – TENCH Dick
2018	Botham Shem Jean
2014	RICE Tamir
2004	BELL Michael
1975	YEW Peter

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Shantel Arnold

September 20, 2021 – Jefferson Parish (LA)

34 year-old. Repeatedly smashed to the ground by her braids

Shantel was walking home around 2 p.m. when Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy Julio Alvarado, a 16-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, pulled up in his vehicle and demanded she stop and talk to him, according to Shantel and two witnesses related to her, as well as their statements provided to a sheriff’s investigator. She told him that she had just been assaulted by several boys from the neighborhood and wanted to go home, and she continued walking. Arnold is 4-foot-8, about 100 pounds and is missing her left eye from a car accident.

According to the two witnesses, Lionel Gray, 71, whom Arnold considers her stepfather, and Arnold’s 55-year-old uncle, Tony Givens, Alvarado jumped out of his vehicle, grabbed Shantel and threw her to the ground, unprovoked. The 14-second video captures what happened next. It shows Alvarado dragging Arnold along the pavement. They briefly disappear behind a parked white vehicle. When they come back into view, Alvarado is holding Shantel by her braids, slamming her repeatedly onto the pavement. At one point, he whips her down so violently her body spins around and flips over. The footage ends with Alvarado crouching down and placing a knee onto Shantel’s back.

The Sheriff’s Office opened an internal probe into the deputy’s actions shortly after the incident, though Shantel did not file a complaint. That’s an action the Sheriff’s Office often does not take, even in cases where citizens complain about the inappropriate use of force.

The probe remains open. At the same time, the office issued a statement saying the video had been “selectively edited.” The statement asserted that Arnold was intoxicated and that she had been resisting arrest.

ProPublica dug out the troubling violent history of excessive-force allegations against officer Julio Alvarado : he has been named in 9 civil rights lawsuits, more than any deputy currently employed at the JPSO…

• 10.20.2021 – Statement issued by Sheriff’s Office saying the video had been “selectively edited”
• 09.20.2021 – Probe opened by Sheriff’s Office
• 09.20.2021 – Agression of Shantel

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[Sources: ProPublica, My Campus Gist, Her Story News, Nola, ProPublica]

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Adam Toledo

March 29, 2021 – Little Village (IL)

13-year old. Shot dead

Adam, a Latino seventh grader at Gary Elementary School with no prior criminal record, was shot and killed by Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer Eric Stillman in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. Officers responded to reports of gunshots and encountered him and another boy,  21-year-old Ruben Roman.

Cook County prosecutors said that Roman had fired the gun at a passing vehicle, setting off the ShotSpotter notification system, a technology which can identify and alert officials of potential gunshots, but that Adam had been holding it during the encounter with police and was warned repeatedly to drop it before police shot him, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

A few hours after the shooting, the CPD described the incident in a tweet as an “armed confrontation.” Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy alleged in court that Adam was armed when Eric Stillman shot him.

But on April 15, Eric Stillman‘s body cam video recording was released, appearing to show Adam dropping a handgun before he turned towards Stillman and raised his empty hands, with 838 milliseconds (⁵⁄₆ of a second) passing between “gun shown in hand and single shot” according to the CPD, while an area resident who said she witnessed the shooting from her apartment window across the street said that Adam was complying with the officer’s requests when he was shot.

• 04.20.2021 – A group of Latino law associations called on the Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation
• 04.17.2021 – Kim Foxx, the Cook County State’s Attorney, announces an investigation into why prosecutor’s earlier descriptions of the shooting of Adam Toledo hadn’t matched the video, and announces James Murphy, the prosecutor who had provided the “misleading” description of the video, would be placed on administrative leave.
• 04.15.2021 – Bodycams footage released
• 04.10.2021 – Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy alleges in court that Adam was armed when the officer shot him
• 03.29.2021 – Death of Adam Toledo

[Sources : Block Club Chicago, CBS Chicago, NPR, ABC News, ABC News, Chicago Sun Times, Democrany Now!, Wikipedia, BBC on YouTube, Civilian Office of Police Accountability]

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Angelo Quinto

December 26, 2020 – Antioch (CA)

30-year old. Asphyxiated

Officially died in a hospital, though his family says the Navy veteran, honorably discharged from the navy in 2019, was killed three days earlier in his Antioch, California, home, after cops took turns kneeling on his neck until he lost consciousness.

Angelo sometimes struggled with anxiety and depression, following a head injury in 2020. On December 23,  had been gripped by one of his “episodes,” as the Quinto-Collins family had labelled them. He’d been having these episodes since the beginning of the year—bursts of extreme paranoia that were never violent, according to his sister, Isabella Collins. During previous episodes, he would ask questions: What’s happening? What are you doing? Can you stay with me? “He just needed reassurance,” his sister Isabella says.

It was his sister who called the police. This episode had started to feel different, unpredictable—her brother was being physical with them in a way he had never been. She and her mother became concerned; Isabella threatened to call the police. Angelo didn’t seem to understand. He kept asking, “What’s going on?” But he was gripping his mother’s shoulders too tightly and ignoring her cries of pain. “My brother is hurting my mom,” she told the police.

Antioch police officers arrived to find Angelo and his mother on the floor. She had him in a bear hug—as much to comfort him as to restrain him, Isabella says. They pulled Angelo from his mother, folded him up, handcuffed him, and soon one of them was kneeling on his neck, then switching off so the other cop could kneel on his neck. Angelo had two fears: death and the police. He always told his mother to comply with the cops—don’t say anything, just follow along. So when the police extricated him from his mother’s arms, his only words were: “Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.”. By the family’s estimate, the police kneeled on his neck for more than four minutes in all, even after he’d gone silent and stopped responding. They left him brain-dead before he got to the hospital, according to his family.

In a cellphone video recorded by his mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, her son is seen lying limp and unresponsive on the floor with blood on his face and on the floor beneath him. She is heard saying: “What happened? Does he have a pulse?”, as officers begin pumping his chest in an attempt to resuscitate him.

When the paramedics arrived and he was finally rolled over, his mother Cassandra saw her son’s bloody face, and his eyes in the back of his head. “That’s the vision I want to take out of my mind,” she says, her daughter comforting her. “I knew, [at] that time, he was dead.”

The cops seemed determined to prove that Angelo or perhaps a family member had done something wrong? They asked questions about drugs, medications, whether Angelo ate. “Did you hit him?” they asked Cassandra. The Quinto-Collinses were confused by the questions. All they got when they pushed back was resistance. “No matter what you said, they came back with the same questions over and over,” says Robert Collins, Angelo’s stepfather. Cassandra and Isabella were then carted off to the police station, where they waited nearly two hours for the officers to question them. Angelo’s younger brother and Robert were made to wait outside the house on the driveway, not allowed back into their home for hours.

Meanwhile, the police searched the house and collected, among other things, two cellphones, several photographs, and five vials of Angelo’s blood. “That really was to try and find evidence…he was a bad person, that he was operating in illegal activity, that he had some drugs in his room, he had weapons in his room—whatever they could find that would be illegal, to somehow muddy him up, to project him in a negative light,” says the family lawyer John Burris.

The following morning, the doctor called Cassandra while the family was at the station, asking for her by name. A police officer rushed her off the phone. She never got to speak to the doctor. At 6:30 a.m., Robert spoke to a doctor who expressed surprise that Angelo was alive. When he hung up, he says, a detective immediately started trying to reassure him that Angelo was in good shape. Not until December 25, after a day of trying, were the Quinto-Collinses able to see Angelo. “It was heartbreaking,” Cassandra says. He was in a weak state. Medical personnel had had to tape his eyes shut, and he was on a breathing machine. He was unresponsive except for a faint heartbeat.

The family lawyer John Burris filed a wrongful-death claim accusing police of having carried out an illegal chokehold, stating : “At no time while being restrained did Mr. Quinto resist physically or verbally After being restrained for almost five minutes, Mr. Quinto became lifeless.”. Burris said the officers that responded that night didn’t attempt to de-escalate the situation, but instead immediately grabbed Angelo from his mother’s arms and pushed him to the ground. “These Antioch police officers had already handcuffed Angelo but did not stop their assault on the young man and inexplicably began using the ‘George Floyd‘ technique of placing a knee on the back and side of his neck, ignoring Mr. Quinto pleas of ‘please don’t kill me.’ […] This horrific incident provides a haunting reminder that a seemingly minor call for help from the police can have deadly consequences for the person in need of help when the police use force first without verbally assessing the situation.” Burris also noted that the officers didn’t appear to turn on their body cameras.

Although the family claims he died of asphyxiation, Antioch police say pathologists found no evidence of strangulation or a crushed airway. While Angelo did incur some injuries during the encounter, Police Chief Tammany Brooks said none of them were fatal, adding that toxicology testing is underway due to his past drug use.

The family also want to know why the officers reacted to Angelo so abruptly in taking him from his mother’s arms, even though they had been forewarned that he was having mental health difficulties.

Antioch Police, who didn’t disclose Angelo’s death until nearly a month after the incident, when the Mercury News began reporting the story in January. denied claims that use of force led to the death. “At no point did any officer use a knee or other body parts to gain leverage or apply pressure to Angelo’s head, neck, or throat, which is outside of our policy and training,” Police Chief Tammany Brooks said during a news conference, adding that the investigation is still ongoing.

• 03.02.2021 – Antioch Police denies claims that use of force led to the death
• 02.18.2021 – Wrongful-death claim filed against the City by the family’s lawyer. Family helds a press conference
• 12.26.2020 – Death of Angelo Quinto
• 12.23.2020 – Police intervention at Angelo‘s Home

[Sources: Mother Jones, John Burris Law Offices, Open Paper, The Guardian, Mercury News, Vox, The New York Times, Newsweek]

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Andre Maurice Hill

December 22, 2020 – Columbus (OH)

47-year old. Shot dead

Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man, was shot after officers were dispatched to a “non-emergency” disturbance call from a neighbor who allegedly saw a man sitting in an SUV for an extended period of time turning his car on and off, according to the Columbus Department of Public Safety.

Upon their arrival, officers Adam Coy and his colleague found Hill sitting in a vehicle inside an opened-door garage. The officers approached the 47-year-old with shining flashlights. Hill walked toward the pair, holding up a cell phone. About five seconds later Coy shot Hill. No weapon was found at the scene, and none of the other responding officers had their cameras on until after Hill was shot, according to investigators.

The incident was only partially captured by the officer’s body camera. The devices within the department are set up so that they are always running and overwriting unwanted footage. However, once they are switched to record, the camera automatically keeps the previous 60 seconds of footage minus the accompanying audio. Officer Coy turned on his own camera only after he’d already shot at the man who lay on the ground dying.

As the officers waited for medical help to arrive, neither offered Hill any assistance for approximately five minutes. They did not try to stop the man’s bleeding. Instead, as Hill lays on the floor, Coy, a white, 19-year veteran officer commands, “Don’t move dude.”

Andre Hill was pronounced dead at Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital.

An Ohio coroner has ruled that the police killing was a homicide. The Franklin County coroner’s office announced the determination in a brief statement, saying that its preliminary investigation shows Andre Hill died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Public Safety Director Ned Pettus, who is the only official with the authority to fire police officers, said Coy had violated the department’s use-of-force policy, failed to follow protocol by delaying the activation of his body camera, and failed to render aid to the dying man.

“The actions of Adam Coy do not live up to the oath of a Columbus Police officer, or the standards we, and the community, demand of our officers,” Pettus wrote in a statement. “The shooting of Andre Hill is a tragedy for all who loved him, in addition to the community and our Division of Police.” “Prior to shooting Mr. Hill, (Coy) did not attempt to use trained techniques to de-escalate the situation,” Pettus also said.

Coy remains under criminal investigation in the shooting with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation leading the inquiry. Additionally, U.S. Attorney David DeVillers said his office will review whether any federal civil rights laws were violated. Attorney General Dave Yost was appointed special prosecutor. The FBI’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office are also aiding in the investigation.

Adam Coy has a remarkably dense history of complaints against him. During a drunk-driving stop in October 2012, Coy punched a man, slammed him on the ground, and repeatedly bashed his head into the hood of his car while the man was handcuffed. The incident, witnessed by a college student and Coy’s own dashboard camera, was so bad the victim was awarded a $45,000 settlement from the city. An internal police investigation found that the driver did not appear to be resisting arrest in the first place. Other incidents have dotted Coy’s professional record. The Dispatch reported nine complaints against him in 2003, alone. He received written counseling for those incidents. A Daily Beast review of Coy’s Internal Affairs Bureau file reveal more than 180 complaints against him since he joined the force. Most were labeled as unfounded, unsustained, or within the allowed limits of police force. But at least 16 reports were marked as sustained.

• 2020.12.28 – Adam Coy fired
• 2020.12.28 – Ohio Coroner rules the police killing is a homicide
• 2020.12.22 – Death of Andre Hill

[Sources : NPR, The Daily Beast, ABC News, Atlanta Black Star, Democracy Now!, BuzzFeed, The Colombus Dispatch, Wikipedia]

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Caron Nazario

December 5, 2020 – Windsor (VA)

27-year old. Pepper-sprayed and pushed to the ground at gun point

The Black and Latino lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps was driving to Petersburg, Va, and was wearing his Army uniform at the time, when he saw police lights flashing behind him. He drove to the gas station about a mile away to avoid pulling over on a dark road after he noticed a police car flashing its lights at him, so that he could be somewhere public and well lit while he interacted with them. He pulled over and placed his cellphone on his dashboard, as shown on the video.

Officer Daniel Crocker initiated the traffic stop because he believed that Caron’s SUV lacked a rear license plate, though a temporary tag is visible in officers’ body camera footage, according to the complaint. A police narrative filed as an exhibit in the lawsuit filed by Caron alleges that since the vehicle lacked plates, had dark tinted windows, and took a long time to stop after it traveled a short distance to a well-lit BP gas station before pulling over, the encounter was treated as a high-risk traffic stop.

Immediately, Windsor police officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker can be heard yelling orders at him, while Caron remains calm and unthreatening:

Off. Guttierez: Keep your hands outside the window!
Caron Nazario: My hands are right here. What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Get out of the car!
Off. Guttierez: Now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Crocker: Get out the car!
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now! Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m treated?
Off. Guttierez: You know what? Guess what. I’m a veteran, too. I learned how to obey!
Caron Nazario: That’s —
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: What’s going on? You’re fixin’ to ride the lightning, son.
Caron Nazario: I’m sorry. What?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now! Get out of the car!
Off. Crocker: Sir, just get out the car. Work with us, and we’ll talk to you. Get out the car.
Off. Guttierez: You received an order. Obey it!
Caron Nazario: I’m — I’m honestly afraid to get out. Can I ask you what’s going —
Off. Guttierez: Yeah, you should be! Get out!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Caron Nazario: What did I do?
Off. Crocker: Get out the car.
Off. Guttierez: Get out now!
Caron Nazario: I have not committed any crimes.
Off. Guttierez: You’re being stopped for a traffic violation. You’re not cooperating. At this point right now you’re under arrest for —
Caron Nazario: For a traffic —
Off. Guttierez: You’re being detained, OK? You’re being detained for obstruction of justice.
Caron Nazario: For a traffic violation, I do not have to be out the vehicle.
Off. Guttierez: Really?
Caron Nazario: You haven’t even told me why I’m being stopped.
Off. Guttierez: Really?
Caron Nazario: Get your hands —
Off. Guttierez: Get out! Get out of the car now! Get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off of me, please.
Off. Guttierez: Get out.
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: You know what?
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: Not a problem.
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: Back up, Daniel.
Caron Nazario: I didn’t do anything. Don’t do that.
Off. Crocker: Sir!
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: Don’t do that.
Off. Crocker: Hey! Stop.
Caron Nazario: Don’t do that.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Sir, look.
Caron Nazario: Don’t do — I’m trying to talk to you.
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Off. Crocker: OK.
Caron Nazario: I’m trying to talk to you.
Off. Crocker: I’m going to talk to you.
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Off. Crocker: Just get out of the car.
Caron Nazario: Relax. Can you please relax?
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Caron Nazario: Can you please relax?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car right now! Now!
Caron Nazario: This is not how you treat a vet. I’m actively serving this country, and this is how you’re going to treat me?
Off. Guttierez: Back up, Daniel.
Caron Nazario: I didn’t do anything.
Off. Guttierez: I got him.
Caron Nazario: Whoa! Hold on! What’s going — hold on. Watch it.
Off. Crocker: [inaudible] deployed.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car! Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: That’s [bleep] up. That’s [bleep] up.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Sir, just get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: I’m trying to breathe.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: That’s [bleep] up. That’s really [bleep] up.
Off. Guttierez: Get — open — get out of the car and get on the ground now, or you’re going to get it again!
Caron Nazario: I don’t even want to reach for my seat belt.

Caron was then pepper-sprayed at point-blank range by officer Guttierez, then forced to the ground and handcuffed. Caron’s hands remained up as he coughed and pleaded with the officers to undo his seatbelt and make sure his dog, Smoke, was not choking in the back. Liquid from the spray dripped down his hands and face. Once Caron was in handcuffs, the officers pulled him up and began to interrogate him. Medics also responded to provide assistance to him, who said his eyes were burning.

The video was released nearly four months after the actual incident and became viral with millions of views.

Later, Caron was threatened with charges that could have destroyed his military career if he tried to seek redress, according to the lawsuit. The officers allegedly told him he could leave without charges if he would just “chill and let this go.”

“He was terrified that if he was going to move his hands below where Officer Gutierrez could have seen them to undo that seatbelt, they would have murdered him,” said Jonathan Arthur, attorney for Caron Nazario. Arthur said that Caron had good reason to fear for his life: guns were drawn when police approached his car, and officers gave him conflicting demands, he said. In body camera footage, Gutierrez is heard telling him he was “fixin’ to ride the lightning, son,” which the lawsuit describes as a “colloquial expression for an execution,” particularly in reference to the electric chair.

He’s seeking $1 million in compensatory damages, claiming the two officers violated his rights guaranteed under the First and Fourth Amendments. The suit, filed in US District Court and first reported by the Virginian-Pilot, claims the officers used excessive force during the stop in December. Caron also accused the officers of threatening to destroy his military career by charging him with multiple crimes if he complained about their conduct.

• 04.12.2021 – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sends a request for information to the Windsor Police Department (WPD), calling the manner in which the officers conducted themselves “dangerous, unnecessary, unacceptable and avoidable.”
• 04.11.2021 – Officer Joe Guttierez terminated following a Windsor City Police Department investigation that determined Windsor Police Department policy was not followed.
• 04.08.2021 – Bodycam footage released on YouTube.
• 04.02.2021 – Lawsuit filed against the two Officers for violating Caron Nazario’s constitutionnal rights.
• 12.05.2020 – Aggression

[Sources: Democracy Now, CNN, CNN, The Guardian, Vice, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Virginian-Pilot]

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Casey Christopher Goodson Jr.

December 4, 2020 – Columbus (OH)

23-year old. Shot dead

Casey was carrying a Subway sandwich and was on his way back from the dentist’s office when he was fatally shot in the back three times by Jason Meade, a 17-year veteran FCSO Deputy assigned full time to U.S. Marshal’s office fugitive task force.

Law enforcement officers, however, tell a different story. They say Casey drove by and waved a handgun at Meade. The officer then confronted hi:m, who was out of the car by then, and demanded that he drop the gun. When Casey allegedly refused, Meade shot him, according to the Columbus Division of Police.

“They are lying,” Kaylee Harper, Casey’s sister, wrote in a Facebook post about the department’s claims. “My brother literally walked across the yard, walked into the back fence to get to the side door, had his Subway [sandwich] and [face] mask in one hand, keys in the other, unlocked and opened the door and stepped in the house before shooting him.”

Casey‘s death was witnessed by his 72-year-old grandmother and two toddlers who were near the door. Sean Walton, the family’s attorney, said :

“Even hours after his death, the keys that he used to let himself in the house as he was shot and killed hung in the door – a reminder to his family of how close he was to safety.“

Family members are demanding the release of bodycam footage, police reports, and for an independent autopsy and investigation.

• 12.2020 – Columbus Police Critical Incident Response Team opens investigation. US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and the FBI launch a federal civil rights investigation
• 12.04.2020 – Death of Casey Christopher Goodson Jr.

[Sources: The Columbus Dispatch, Vox, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Democracy Now!, CNN]

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Rickia Young

October 27, 2020 – Philadelphia (PA)

28-year old. Assaulted, arrested and separated her from her child

Rickia Young, a Black mother, was attacked by a horde of Philadelphia police officers while she was driving an SUV with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew on October 27 as the city was engulfed in protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. earlier that day.

Officers descended on the vehicle, broke its windows, assaulted and arrested her and separated her from her child. Young’s arrest went viral due to a shocking video of the police swarming her vehicle, and after the National Fraternal Order of Police — the country’s largest police union — posted a photo of her 2-year-old on social media, falsely claiming he “was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness.”

More than a month after the police attack, Rickia Young is demanding the officers involved be fired. “The police have not offered an explanation as to why they acted the way they did that night. They responded instead with a police investigation into Rickia,” says Kevin Mincey, Rickia Young’s attorney.

Once I got close enough to see the cops, I stopped. Like, I stopped right there. I was trying to turn around. But it was like people came inside the street and was up there throwing stuff at the cops.

Next you know, the cops started charging, started running. My nephew was saying, “Lock the doors! Lock the doors!” because they was banging on the car, saying mean things: “Turn this F-ing car around!” and “Get out the F-ing car!” And they had yanked my door open. But by that time, they had busted the back window. They pulled me out the car, and they busted the other window.

I was up there yelling at them, like, “My son is in the car! My son is in the car!” And once they busted that window, they had woke him up. And they was up there, like, doing whatever they was doing to me, hitting me, throwing me, macing me. My son, the look on his face, he was petrified. Petrified.

I was asking, like, “What’s going on?” like, you know, “Where’s my son? Where’s my son?” like screaming, like trying to find my son. The officer had the nerve to tell me, “He’s in a better place: DHS.” You can say anything you want about me, but calling me — like, saying something like that to me is an insult. They, as a whole, the Philadelphia Police Department, treated me as if I was an animal on the street. An animal don’t even deserve that.

 

He is petrified. And he’s only 2 years old. My mom and my nephew asked him what happened. He was saying, ‘[bleep] car. [bleep] door. Open door,’ and up there banging his hand, like as if — like, you know, the cops was banging on the car. He just kept repeating it like he’s still trying to tell the story. Like, he acts out. He bite his nails. He pull his hair now. He never did those things before. He’s traumatized. He is going through something. He knows words, but, you know, he can’t express to me how he’s feeling.

According to her lawyer, “They held her vehicle — first, after losing her vehicle, not knowing where it was for several days, according to what they told us. And when they finally recovered it three or four days later, none of her belongings were inside. The hearing aids were gone. Her purse, her wallet were gone. And the car had even more damage than when she last saw it after they had smashed out all the windows.” […]  There has been no — there has been no explanation. The only thing that they’ve even tried to do is kind of workshop a story where they were going to accuse her of trying to assault a police officer. That was done after they had taken her into custody. When Rickia was in the hospital and being held at police headquarters, on her wristband it referenced assault on police.

But you can see from the videos that were taken that night that Rickia’s car never moved that night. When she came down Chestnut Street and started to turn and turn around, she stopped right there. She didn’t back up, because there were people behind her. There were people running towards her. She didn’t do anything to try and assault an officer. And that’s ultimately, I think, why they ultimately chose not to charge her criminally, because they had no evidence to support such a charge.”

Fortunately for Rickia, there were two young women who were in the paddy wagon with her that night, and one of the women still had her cellphone on her, incredibly. And so, Rickia was able to get the young lady to call her sister, and Rickia was able to tell her sister and her mother then what happened out there on 52^nd Street that night. And then her mother and her sister went out to 52^nd Street to question the police.

At first, the police acted as though they didn’t know what they were talking about. And eventually they directed Rickia’s mother and sister to 15^th Street, which is about four miles away from where all this happened — and 15^th and JFK, to be exact, which is near where the Department of Human Services is here in Philadelphia.

And when they went down to 15^th and JFK, Rickia’s mother found her son sitting in the backseat of a police car still in his car seat. And when she touched his hair, glass fell out of his hair. There was still glass from the car in the car seat. The police were just allowing him to sit in that glass.

Rickia’s son had a large welt on his head. She had internal injuries. Her nephew had broken bones in his hand. So, it’s a slow recovery from the physical injuries and an even slower recovery from the emotional trauma that they’re going to be dealing with probably for the rest of their lives.

• 10.28.2020 – Internal Affairs investigation initiated
• 10.28.2020 – 5 officers placed on desk duty
• 10.27.2020 – Aggression

[Sources : Democracy Now!, The Inquirer, CBS News, CBS Philadephia]

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Linden Cameron

September 4, 2020 – Salt Lake City (UT)

13-year old. Shot multiple times

Linden Cameron is a 13-year-old boy from Glendale, Utah who has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. Her mother Golda Barton told KUTV she called 911 to request a crisis intervention team because her son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was having an episode caused by “bad separation anxiety” as his mother went to work for the first time in more than a year.

“I said, ‘He’s unarmed, he doesn’t have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,’” she said. “He’s a kid, he’s trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.”

Two officers went through the front door of the home and in less than five minutes were yelling “Get down on the ground!” before firing several shots.

According to an early report of the incident, KUTV reported that police were responding to a call about a teenager with a “violent psych issue”  who was “having a mental episode and making threats to some folks with a weapon.”  After officers from the Salt Lake City Police Department arrived, police say Linden Cameron ran and was then shot. “During a short foot pursuit, an officer discharged his firearm and hit the subject,” Sergeant Keith Horrocks said during a news conference. According to CNN, police also said that they were told that Linden Cameron “had made threats to some folks with the weapon.” Barton claimed that she told police that her son was unarmed.

Linden Cameron is currently hospitalized in serious condition after sustaining severe gunshot wounds to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and bladder, according to his mom.

The police have not released the name of the officer involved in the shooting, or made public the police report, or explained generally why the officer shot the child, or said if he or she would be charged or face any disciplinary action. The department said it would release additional details within 10 business days, which is when local ordinances require bodycam footage be released.

• 09.2020 – Investigation opened

[Sources : The Guardian, KUTV, Heavy, Slate]

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Michael Forest Reinoehl

September 3, 2020 – Lacey (WA)

48-year old. Shot dead

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Deon Kay

September 2, 2020 – Washington (DC)

18-year old. Shot dead

According to several local outlets report that on September 2, Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to the scene in SE DC after reports of a man brandishing a weapon were made. Police officers say they approached the vehicle, which had several occupants and two of them took off running. The police claim that one of the occupants pulled a weapon from his waistband, and he was shot by one of the officers in the chest.

Contradicting earlier reports from family and observers that Deon was shot in the back, redacted bodycam footage shows Alexander Alvarez, the officer in pursuit who saw the handgun Deon was brandishing and attempting to toss and fire one single shot to the teen’s chest.

Officers reportedly administered first aid and Deon was later transported to a local hospital where he died. The gun police reported seeing in Deon’s hand was found 98 feet from the scene of the shooting

Natasha Kay, his mother, told after the shooting that there had been tension between police and residents of Ward 8, which includes neighborhoods dealing with economic challenges and high crime rates. Monica Hopkins of the ACLU of the District of Columbia condemned the police response. She said, “The tragic shooting and death of 18-year-old Deon Kay is the logical conclusion of a policy that not only meets violence with violence, but actually escalates and incites it — especially in our Black communities.”

09.03.2020 – The officers involved were placed on administrative leave.

09.03.2020 – DC Police released bodycam footage

[Sources : Washington Post, DC Police on YouTube, HipHopWired, NBC Washington, Democracy Now!, The Sun, NY Post]

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Dijon Kizzee

August 31, 2020 –

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Jacob Blake

August 23, 2020 – Kenosha (WI)

29-year old. Shot 7 times in the back

Blake, as he was walking toward a car, was followed by an officer who has a weapon drawn. Blake opens the car door and reaches into the vehicle and an officer tugs on his shirt. At least seven gunshots can be heard in the video, followed by a car horn. Two officers can be seen in the video near the car; it is unclear what happened before the video was recorded.

One of Blake’s neighbors said when he went to the store about 15 minutes before the shooting, Blake was barbecuing with his kids. When the neighbor returned, Blake was trying to break up a fight. Seven or eight police officers arrived. They wanted to talk with Blake, but he wasn’t interested and started putting his kids in the car to leave.

Two people who live in the Kenosha neighborhood Blake has called home for about two years said he has five children ranging in age from 3 to 7 and a fiancee.

The man who took the first video from across the street said it was horrifying as he was filming, seeing the policeman Rusten Sheskey, as he was getting into his car, holding the back of Jacob’s T-shirt and shooting him at point-blank range seven times in the back, as his little children are in the car that he’s getting into — 3, 5 and 8 years old. He is suffering post-traumatic stress.

On August 24, he was still reported to be fighting for his life after surgery. On August 26 his Attorney said “He had a bullet go through some or all of his spinal cord, at least one bullet. He has holes in his stomach. He had to have nearly his entire colon and small intestines removed. He suffered damage to his kidney and liver, and was also shot in the arm.” He is paralyzed from the waist down. Even in the hospital he was kept handuffed.

The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, a statement from the state’s attorney general said.

Attorney Ben Crump tweeted “Kenosha city council passed an ordinance in 2017 requiring all officers wear body cams. But they never bought them. They’re in the budget.. in 2022. If it weren’t for a neighbor’s video, the police shooting of Jacob Blake would’ve vanished & no officers would be held accountable.”

Letetra Widman, Jacob’s sister, said: “This is nothing new. I’m not sad. I’m not sorry. I’m angry, and I’m tired. I haven’t cried one time. I stopped crying years ago. I am numb. I have been watching police murder people that look like me for years.”

The state is actually investigating, the Office of Criminal Investigation leading the investigation, independent from the district attorney, according to a Bill passed a few years ago. Sheskey has been placed on paid administrative leave and has not been charged with a crime.

On September 7, 2020, Activist Shermaine Laster interviewed Jacob Blake at the hospital : “Every 24 hours, it’s pain — it’s nothing but pain,” he says. “It hurts to breathe; it hurts to sleep. It hurts to move from side to side. It hurts to eat.”

• 09.21.2020 – Independent analysis of Blake’s shooting to be conducted by former Madison police chief Noble Wray. who will take a look at the case files after the Wisconsin Department of Justice finishes its investigation and report to the Kenosha County district attorney on his findings
• Office of Criminal Investigation conducting the investigations, independent from local District Attorney

[Sources : Twitter, Heavy, USA Today, Mother Jones, NY Post, Democracy Now!, The Daily Beast]

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Trayford Pellerin

August 21, 2020 – Lafayette (LA)

31-year old. Tased then shot dead

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Grant King

July 18, 2020 – Indianapolis (IN)

35-year old. Shot dead

Officers were called to a residence where a man opened fire on them, causing an officer to return fire. The man went inside the home and IMPD SWAT members and Crisis Negotiation teams arrived. After multiple hours of a standoff, the man stopped communicating with officers and officers attempted to enter the home, and engaged in gunfire again with the man. Officers struck the man during this altercation and he died later at the hospital.

[Source : IndyStar]

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Tyler Blevens

July 14, 2020 – Shepherdsville (KY)

22-year old. Shot dead

Following an hours-long standoff in which officers surrounded Blevens’ home, he emerged from the house carrying a gun and attempted to get in a vehicle. Police say that officers shot him after giving repeated commands to drop the gun, to which he did not respond. Tyler Blevens, of Shepherdsville, was pronounced dead at the scene.

[Sources : WDRB, DeadDeath]

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Glenn Farse Young

July 13, 2020 – Rockwood (TN)

59-year old. Shot dead

Officers responded to a domestic disturbance call on the highway between a man and woman, the woman left the vehicle and the man drove away from the scene resulting in a chase. Once stopped by the officers, the man exited the vehicle and brandished a handgun at the officers, causing one of the officers to fire and kill Farse Young.

[Sources : WATE, KnoxNews]

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Rodney Morrison

July 12, 2020 – Leesburg (GA)

47-year old. Shot dead

[Sources : WALB News, US News]

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Terena Thurman

July 12, 2020 – Butler Township (OH)

36-year old. Shot dead

Officers were searching for Terena Thurman who had a warrant for her arrest from a prior offense. When she was found, she fled and reportedly stole a truck and when officers tried to make an arrest she reportedly hit an officer with the truck. It is believed by officers that the officer who was hit by the truck, fired his weapon in defense of the other officers. Thurman was struck in the chest and crashed the truck she was driving, and pronounced dead at a local hospital.

[Source : WDTN]

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Michael Joseph Culbertson

July 11, 2020 – Greenville County (SC)

26-year old. Shot dead

According to the Greenville County Coroner, officers were attempting to serve a warrant on Culbertson when he pulled out a weapon and pointed it at the officers. One of the officers shot Culbertson, and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

[Sources : WSPA, MSN]

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Hakim Littleton

July 10, 2020 – Detroit (MI)

20-year old – Shot dead

Police explained that the shooting happened while cops from the gang intelligence unit were investigating a July 5 shooting at a block party that left three people dead.

Bodycam footage released by the police shows Littleton pull a gun from his shorts pocket and fire two shots from about two feet away from a cop who was part of a crew that was at McNichols and San Juan investigating a July 5 mass shooting in which three people were killed and five others wounded.

Police said Littleton, was out on probation for a 2017 unarmed robbery and felony firearm conviction. Court records obtained by the Detroit Free Press indicate he was initially charged with armed robbery, but cut a deal to plead guilty to a lesser charge that got him three years probation.

The autopsy, conducted by Chief Wayne County Medical Examiner Carl Schmidt the day after the shooting, ruled the cause of death as homicide, the result of four gunshot wounds — one in the head, two in the right thigh, and one in the left thigh. Report said Littleton was shot in the back of the head; the bullet went through his brain and lodged in his scalp, where it was recovered.

[Sources : Free Press, ClickOnDetroit, NY Post, Deadline Detroit, United Patriot News, Detroit News, Daily Caller, The Pulse Institute]

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Kanavis Dujuan Glass

July 10, 2020 – Panama City Beach (FL)

31-year old. Shot dead

Panama City Beach Police Chief Drew Whitman says officers responded to a domestic violence incident at Laketown Wharf around 1:20 a.m. When officers arrived on scene, Glass shot his girlfriend in the face. He says the suspect was killed when officers returned fire. No officers were hurt in the incident.

The FDLE has taken over the case and is investigating.

[Source : WJHG]

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Kevin Michael Norton

July 10, 2020 – Forksville (PA)

60-year old. Shot dead

Shot and killed at about 10:30 a.m. in the garage of his property near Forksville, as law enforcement personnel were trying to serve a bench warrant last week.

Kevin reportedly feared going to prison due to the coronavirus outbreak. He was due to serve a six- to 23-month theft and defiant trespass sentence. He had pain and lung problems from a burn injury and was taking prescribed medication but also self-medicating.

[Sources : US News, Local21News, Pepper Funeral Home]

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James Porter Garcia

July 4, 2020 – Phoenix (AZ)

28-year old. Shot dead

Officers surrounding Garcia’s parked car fired at least 10 shots at him as he sat in the vehicle. Whether Garcia was armed is disputed.

The Phoenix Police Department said that two officers who fired at Garcia had their body-worn cameras recording during the incident.

A video showed several uniformed officers surrounding a parked car while pointing their guns at the man inside the vehicle. One of the officers shouted at the man, threatening to shoot him.

[Sources : The New York Times, AZ Central, Heavy]

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Erik Salgado

June 6, 2020 – Oakland (CA)

23-year old. Shot dead

Salgado and his girlfriend, who survived, were shot on the 9600 block of Cherry Street at 10:46 p.m. Saturday by California Highway Patrol officers who were “conducting a criminal investigation,” Oakland police have said. The victim’s family said his girlfriend is four months pregnant and that the couple has a 3-year-old daughter.

[Sources : San Francisco Chronicle, Heavy, USA Today, WaliKali]

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Brandon Saenz

May 30, 2020 – Dallas (TX)

26 year-old. Shot in the face

Texas Police shot 26-year-old African American Brandon with so-called non-lethal ammunition (a foam bullet) at a peaceful protest by Off. Melvin Williams, Ryan Mabry, shattering his left eye, knocking out several teeth, fracturing his face. Not one single police officer attempted to intervene and administer any type of medical assistance, in direct violation of the general orders.

Brandon was walking by a group of peaceful protesters congregating near City Hall on May 30. The protest, which came five days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, was one of hundreds of demonstrations against police brutality taking place across the United States that day. As he approached the group, he was struck by a round of “less-than-lethal” ammunition. Dallas police used these rounds, typically rubber or foam bullets fired from a specially designed launcher, for crowd control that day. While Dallas Police Department policy dictates that these rounds “should never be used to intentionally target the head, neck, face, eyes, or spine,” the round hit Brandon’s left eye. In his own words :

I was at a dog park at lunch time. And then, so I so happened to just walk up, down the street, and I seen a bunch of crowd, and they was out there protesting, so I joined the protest, because I’ve been hearing about all this, like George [Floyd], all the stuff that’s been going on. So, I so happened to join. And I so happened to walk up on the officer, Dallas PD, and they had their little shields and everything. And I so happened to walk up, and I stopped for a minute. I just paused.

And then I heard a loud noise go boom, and I got hit in the — and it hit me. But I didn’t know it hit me at first, until something started feeling weird to me. And then, that’s when I just seen all the blood just gushing out. And I just put my hand over my eye and just took off down the sidewalk. And that’s when all the people came, and they had asked me, did I need any water. I said, no, I didn’t — well, I didn’t say nothing, and I just kept going. And that’s when they came around me and surrounded me and started doctoring on me. Then that’s when that guy put the wrap around my head. I was losing a lot of blood.

And when I was laying on the ground with all the people surrounding me, the laws, the Dallas PD, they — I guess they were trying to force us to move, while we was right there on the ground, while I was bleeding out. And they didn’t want to let the ambulance through for a minute. So I was just sitting there bleeding out. So I told one of the people that was around me, I said, “Well, can somebody just take me to the hospital? Can somebody please just take me to the hospital?” So, we sat there for a little bit. Then, all the sudden, they just — that’s when the laws started coming over and trying to force us to move. They just picked me up and put me in the car. Then, once they put me in the car, the ambulance have arrived. And then they came and got me out the car and put me in the ambulance.

When I got to the hospital, they took me in the room. They put IVs in me, gave me some medicine, pain medicine. Then, after, they took me into surgery. And that’s when they told me — when I woke up out of the surgery, that’s when they told me I lost my eye. And I fractured — my jaw was twisted. My nose was broken. And I got metal plates right here, metal screws in my nose and a plate right here on my cheek.

• 05.06.2022 – Off. Melvin Williams, Ryan Mabry and Joe Privitt indicted by Grand Jury in Dallas County on charges of aggravated assault and official oppression
• 2022 – Off. Williams fired from the department earlier this year after he violated a use-of-force policy in a separate incident in Deep Ellum. Off. Mabry is on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation
• 05.30.2020 – Brandon is shot in the face

[Donate on Brandon’s GoFundMe page that his mother has set up to pay for his medical bills]

[Sources: Democracy Now!, Dallas News, Dallas Observer]

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Georges Perry Floyd Jr

May 25, 2020 – Minneapolis (MN)

46 year-old. Murdered by asphyxia due to neck and back compression

George, an African American sports athlete, a hip hop artist and a mentor in his religious community, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, who pressed his knee to George‘s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while he was handcuffed face down in the street. As seen in a witness’s cellphone video, two other officers further restrained George and a fourth prevented onlookers from intervening as George repeatedly pleaded that he could not breathe. During the final two minutes he was motionless and had no pulse, but Chauvin kept his knee on George‘s neck and back even as emergency medical technicians arrived to treat him.

Police had been called by a grocery store employee who suspected that George had used a counterfeit $20 bill.

A bystander video recording of the incident showed that a white police officer pinned George to the ground while he was handcuffed. The police officer’s knee pressed into the back of George’s neck for more than nine minutes, even after he lost consciousness. On the video, Floyd was heard saying:

“Please, I can’t breathe. My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Everything hurts. … (I need) water or something. Please. Please. I can’t breathe, officer. … I cannot breathe. I cannot breathe.“

The medical examiner found that George‘s heart stopped while he was being restrained and that his death was a homicide, caused by “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression“, though fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use may have increased the likelihood of death. A second autopsy, commissioned by George‘s family, also found his death to be a homicide, specifically citing asphyxia due to neck and back compression; it ruled out that any underlying medical problems had contributed to his death, and said that George being able to speak while under Chauvin‘s knee does not mean he could breathe.

The head of the Minneapolis police union Bob Kroll tweeted George’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.”

Chauvin was fired and charged with second-degree murder. He was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on April 20, 2021, but he has yet to be sentenced.

The murder of George Floyd spurred what has been called the largest protest movement in U.S. history; data suggest that up to 26 million people in the U.S. participated in demonstrations. There has also been widespread protest and activism around the world. Proposed legislation followed as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 was introduced in Congress. The bill’s stated goal is to “to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.”

• 09.23.2021 – Chauvin appeals his 22.5-year sentence and conviction 14 grounds, including the judge’s decision not to move the trial out of Hennepin County
• 04.20.2021 – Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter. Bail denied bail and taken into custody; Sentencing to take place in eight weeks
• 04.20.2021 – Jury announced a verdict of guilty on all three counts in the murder
• 03.29.2021 – Beginning of Chauvin’s trial
• 03.12.2021 – Minneapolis city council approved a settlement of $27 million to the Floyd family following a wrongful death lawsuit
• 07.17.2020 – George‘s family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against four of the former officers involved in his killing, and also against the city of Minneapolis, saying it failed to properly dismiss officers with records of abuse and/or properly train new ones
• 06.03.2020 – Charges against Chauvin upgraded to second-degree murder. The three other officers charged with aiding and abetting murder
• 05.29.2020 – Chauvin arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter
• 05.25.2020 – Death of George Floyd

[Sources: Democracy Now!, CNN, ADL, Pressenza, New York Post, The New York Times, US Congress, Wikipedia, Democracy Now!]

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Jeffery Ryans

April 24, 2020 – Salt Lake City (UT)

36-year old. Severely bitten by police K9 dog

Officers were called to Jeffery Ryans’ home after neighbors heard him arguing with his wife, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. When officers arrived, as the bodycam video shows, Jeffery Ryans, a Black man, was standing in his backyard smoking a cigarette. He said afterward that he was about to leave for his job as a train engineer when they arrived. Officers entered his backyard and shone their lights on him, yelling at him to get on the ground. The dog barking as one of the officers yelled: “Get on the ground! Get on the ground or you’re going to get bit!” Jeffery Ryans can be seen putting his hands up in the air.

The dog first bit Jeffery Ryans while he was on his knees with his arms raised. Officer Nickolas Pearce placed Jeffery Ryans in handcuffs, and the dog continued to bite Jeffery Ryans as he fell to the ground, crying in pain as Nickolas Pearce intermittently told the dog “hit” and “good boy,”

In an interview after his aggression, Jeffery Ryans said as a Black man growing up in Alabama, he learned to cooperate quickly with police officers. In this case, however, he said it was confusing because he wasn’t sure what he should do. One officer was yelling at him to approach, he explained, while another was telling him to get on the ground. He said he was afraid of getting shot if he did the wrong thing.

“I wasn’t running,” he told the Tribune. “I wasn’t fighting. I was just cooperating. We’ve been through this. We’ve seen this. Always cooperate with the police, no matter what.” The bodycam footage shows that even while Ryans was cooperating, kneeling on the ground with his hands up, officer Nickolas Pearce ordered the K9 dog, Tuco, to attack. The K9 officer also continued to instruct the dog to “hit” Jeffery Ryans while his colleague was sitting on him putting handcuffs on.

Jeffery Ryans needed surgery for two lacerations on his left leg, one approximately 4 inches wide and 3 inches long and the second approximately 5 inches long and 1 inch wide, prosecutors said. He suffered damage to his nerves and tendons in his leg, and now has issues walking. According to the Tribune’s report, doctors have not ruled out amputation as a possibility. “Complications resulting from the dog bites have resulted in protracted impairment of his leg and permanent disfigurement of the leg due to visible scarring from the dog bites,” the district attorney’s office said in the charging documents.

• 09.17.2020 – Nickolas Pearce has been charged with felony aggravated assault
• 08.12.2020 – Nickolas Pearce placed on administrative leave “pending the results of these investigations. Use of K9 dogs until the review is complete.
• 08.11.2020 – Salt Lake City police department posts a statement to social media on August 11 that said they were launching an Internal Affairs investigation.
• Notice of claim accusing the responsible officer of unnecessary use of force which caused an injury that wouldn’t have occurred if the right steps were followed during the arrest

[Sources : Heavy, KUTV, HuffPost, The Root]

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Daniel Prude

March 30, 2020 – Rochester (NY)

41-year old. Suffocated

Daniel Prude, a Black man father of five adult children, died from asphyxiation after officers handcuffed him, put a hood over his head and then pushed his face into the freezing cold ground for two minutes while kneeling on his back. Prude was naked and unarmed.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Ann Warren apologized to Prude’s family.

Mayor Lovely Ann Warren: “Mr. Daniel Prude was failed by our police department, our mental healthcare system, our society. And he was failed by me.”

His daughter, Tashyrah Prude, appeared on CNN and called for the officers to be fired and charged with murder.

Tashyrah Prude: “I would like to see them be fired and charged with murder. There is video footage of these people suffocating my father. My father was murdered by these police officers. There is no reason why they should be on a paid suspension. They should be arrested, and they should be tried as the killers that they are.”

“The Rochester Police Department has shown time and again that they are not trained to deal with mental health crises,” Ashley Gantt,  a community organizer from Free the People Roc and the New York Civil Liberties Union. “These officers are trained to kill and not to de-escalate. Daniel’s case is the epitome of what is wrong with this system and today we stand firmly seeking justice for Daniel and his family, and for all the victims who have been murdered and terrorized by the Rochester Police Department.”

New York state attorney general Letitia James’ office, which began an investigation into the death in April, said on September 3^rd that investigation is continuing.

• 09.16.2020 – Newly released internal documents show the department spent months attempting to block the release of video of the incident. In one email in June, the department’s deputy chief opposed releasing the video because it “could create animosity and potentially violent blow back in this community.” The police chief responded saying, “I totally agree.” Police also attempted to frame Daniel Prude, who had been suffering a mental health episode. In one police report, an officer wrote in red letters, “Make him a suspect.”
• 09.15.2020 – Rochester City Council passes bills to authorize an independent investigation into Prude’s death, to transfer some money away from the police department and to repeal a previous vote to fund a new police station.
• 09.14.2020 – Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fires the city’s police chief
• 09.09.2020 – Rochester Police chief La’Ron D. Singletary resigns saying he was being targeted by “an attempt to destroy my character.“
• 09.05.2020 – New York’s attorney general Letitia James announces she will set up a grand jury to consider evidence
• 04.09.2020 – Mayor of Rochester, New York, suspends seven police officers involved
• 03.09.2020 – Family releases shocking video of his death
• 04.2020 – Attorney General opens Investigation

[Sources : Democracy Now!, The Independent, Democrat And Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, BBC, USA Today, Good, CBS, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, NY Times, Democracy Now!]

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Breonna Taylor

March 13, 2020 – Louisville (KY)

26-year old. Shot dead

Breonna Taylor, an certified emergency room technician, was struck by eight police bullets as officers attempted to serve a no-knock warrant on her home during a narcotics investigation. Records show that police believed that a suspect in the narcotics investigation, Jamarcus Glover, used Taylor’s home to receive mail, keep drugs or stash money earned from the sale of drugs. However, according to the lawsuit filed by Taylor’s family, police had identified Glover at a home more than 10 miles from Taylor’s apartment before they executed the warrant at her residence.

The police pursued ‘no-knock‘ search warrant in fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her home, meaning they don’t have to identify themselves before entering a residence or business, if there is a reasonable suspicion that knocking would be dangerous, futile or inhibit the “effective investigation of the crime,” according to Louisville Metro Police policies.

Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker woke up to the unannounced entry and believed their home was being broken into. Kenneth Walker fired his gun first, believing intruders were invading their home and striking an officer in the leg. Officers returned fire. No drugs were found in the home. During the gunfire, Breonna Taylor was struck at least eight times and died.

There is no body camera footage available. Police Chief Steve Conrad said the Criminal Interdiction Squad does not use that equipment.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and  U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., are among those calling for a federal investigation into Breonna Taylor‘s death.

Daniel Cameron, the Kentucky attorney general, released the 15-hour recordings that include interviews with witnesses, audio of 911 calls and other evidence after a judge ordered him to do so, but the recordings did not include the instructions that prosecutors gave to the 12 jurors. Grand jurors are given broad powers, but prosecutors often closely guide the jurors and inform them about their role. The process almost always remains secret.

The grand jurors met in person over three days and reviewed police interviews of officers and witnesses at the scene, 911 calls and body camera videos from after Breonna Taylor‘s death. They also met directly with detectives who had investigated the killing. At times the jurors sound inquisitive or skeptical on the recordings, peppering the detectives with questions and pointing out inconsistencies in some of the officers’ accounts.

• 12.30.2020 – Louisville Police Department has terminates Detective Myles Cosgrove and and Detective Joshua Jaynes
• 10.02.2020 – Daniel Cameron, the Kentucky attorney general releases 15 hours of recording
• 09.24.2020 – Grand Jury declines to charge any of the three white police officers, only indictments were three counts of “wanton endangerment” against former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison for shooting into the apartment of a neighbor
• 09.22.2020 : Six Louisville Metro Police officers under an internal investigation : department’s Professional Standards Unit has begun its probe into Det. Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, who fired their weapons into Taylor’s apartment on March 13; Det. Joshua Jaynes, who sought the search warrant for her apartment; and Det. Tony James, Det. Michael Campbell and Det. Michael Nobles
• 09.15.2020 – City of Louisville, Kentucky, announces it will pay the family of Breonna Taylor $12 million and institute a slew of reforms to the police department responsible for her death
• 06.2020 – Det. Brett Hankison fired
• 05.13.2020 – Jefferson County commonwealth’s attorney Tom Wine recuses himself from reviewing Louisville police officers’ conduct, citing conflict of interest – he is prosecuting Walker. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron confirms his office had been asked to serve as a special prosecutor
• 04.27.2020 – Attorney for Taylor’s estate files a wrongful death suit against the city
• 03.14.2020 – Police opens internal investigation. 3 Officers involved placed on administrative leave. Kenneth Walker charged with attempted murder of a police officer
• 03.13.2020 – Killing

[Sources : USA Today, Courier Journal, The Guardian, CNN, Democracy Now!, ABC News, Democracy Now!, The NY Times, Democracy Now !]

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Kevin Smallman

January 27, 2020 – Chandler (AZ)

32-year old. Shot dead

Phoenix police detectives requested help from Chandler police in apprehending a white Toyota Prius that was believed to be stolen, according to the briefing. On Jan. 26, the day before the shooting, Chandler police Officer Jonathan Castlegrante attempted to stop the Prius near Alma School and Warner roads, but the driver fled to an unknown location, police said.
Castlegrante located the vehicle the following day at a Hampton Inn near Chandler Boulevard and 56th Street. He observed two people, later identified as Kevin Smallman and Krystal Ehrlich, walk away from the Prius and into the hotel. He apprehended them near the building’s elevators, police said.

In the video, Smallman tells the officer he doesn’t have any weapons on him and denies driving the Prius. He and Ehrlich had walked to the hotel where a friend was staying, Smallman can be heard saying in the footage. He stands in a possible attempt to leave.

“You’re detained. You can’t leave,” Castlegrante says in the video.
At one point, the video shows Smallman stand and walk into the elevator, and Castlegrante pulls him out, yelling at him to sit down. Smallman then runs down the hallway with Castlegrante chasing after him. Police said Smallman entered the Prius, and Castlegrante attempted to pull him from the driver’s seat.

During the struggle, Castlegrante was pinned between Smallman and the driver’s seat with his legs sticking out of the vehicle, according to the briefing. Ehrlich had also entered the Prius behind the driver’s seat.

Smallman started the car, driving 400 feet and up to 40 mph while Castlegrante’s legs were hanging out, police said. Only hands and glimpses of the dashboard lights can be seen on video in the darkness and scuffle. Castlegrante warned Smallman to stop the car, yelling, “You’re going to get shot!” and “I’m going to shoot you!” more than 10 times. He then fires a single shot.

Within seconds, the car crashed into a wall on Southgate Drive, according to Chandler police. The department said all three people in the car were taken to a hospital, where Smallman was pronounced dead.

[Sources : MSN, AZ Central, LiveLeaks, HoodSite]

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Elijah McClain

August 27, 2019 – Aurora (CO)

23-year old. Died from chokehold and injection of ketamine

Elijah McClain was a massage therapist, a keen musician and a runner. He went into a coma after he was stopped by police in Aurora, Colorado, in August as he walked home from a convenience store where he was buying iced teas.

Elijah McClain was stopped by three officers after a 911 caller reported a suspicious person wearing a ski mask walking along Billings Street in Aurora, according to a police news release. That report says that he “resisted contact” with officers before a struggle ensued. “I’m an introvert,” McClain is heard saying in police bodycam footage after officers confront him. “Please respect the boundaries that I am speaking.” Before an officer wrestles him to the ground, Elijah McClain is heard telling the officers he was trying to stop his music so that he could listen to them. A letter from the Adams County District Attorney said an officer placed him in a carotid hold, which restricts blood flow to the brain. He briefly lost consciousness, the letter said, but continued struggling after officers released the hold. The DA’s letter said paramedics arrived and administered ketamine, a powerful anesthetic. Elijah McClain was taken to a hospital but had a heart attack on the way. He was declared brain dead three days later, on August 27, the letter says.

The autopsy conducted by the county coroner did not determine the cause of death but noted “intense physical exertion and a narrow left coronary artery” were contributing factors. The report noted Elijah McClain‘s history of asthma and the carotid hold, though the autopsy did not determine whether it contributed to his death. The concentration of ketamine in his system was at a “therapeutic level,” the report said. Ultimately, his death could have been an accident, the result of natural causes or a homicide, the autopsy concluded.

Three officers involved, Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt, and Randy Roedema, were initially placed on administrative leave, but they were later reinstated when prosecutors declined to file criminal charges. In a November 2019 letter to Aurora’s then-police chief, District Attorney Dave Young wrote that his office did not find enough evidence to prove the officers violated Colorado law or that their use of force was unjustified. A police review board said in February that the use of force, including the carotid hold, “was within policy and consistent with training.”

Body-cam footage of the arrest does exist, although the ADP did not release it to the public until late November, months after his death. In the footage, an officer can be heard admitting Elijah McClain had done nothing illegal prior to his arrest; another accuses him of reaching for one of their guns. He, meanwhile, can be heard asking the officers to stop, explaining that they started to arrest him as he was “stopping [his] music to listen.” He gasps that he cannot breathe. He tells them his name, says he has ID but no gun, and pleads that his house is “right there.” He sobs, and vomits, and apologizes: “I wasn’t trying to do that,” he says. “I just can’t breathe correctly.” One of the officers can also be heard threatening to set his dog on hm if he “keep[s] messing around,” and claiming he exhibited an extreme show of strength when officers tried to pin back his arms.

Very little of the officers’ protocol can be seen, however, because all of their body cams allegedly fell off during the arrest. But if you watch the video from about the 15-minute mark (warning: the footage contains violent and upsetting content), you’ll see someone pick up the body camera and point it toward Elijah McClain and one of the officers, before dropping it back into the grass. Around 15:34, one of the officers seems to say, “Leave your camera there.”

Nearly a year after the fatal incident, none of the officers involved have been fired and are yet to face any criminal charges. Following public outcry – especially after the police killing of George Floyd in May – the Colorado governor, Jared Polis, announced that the appointment of the state attorney general, Phil Weiser, to investigate. On August 24, 2020, Weiser confirmed he was conducting a separate investigation into the police department and whether its “patterns and practices” are unconstitutional. Additionally, the city of Aurora has commissioned its own investigation of the police department, hiring an outside consultant to conduct a “comprehensive review.”

The family lawsuit filed by their attorney Mari Newman on August 11, 2020 listed nine claims for relief, including excessive force; denial of equal protection; failure to ensure basic safety and provide adequate medical care and treatment; substantive due process — deprivation of liberty — forcible administration of medication; battery causing wrongful death; and negligence causing wrongful death.

• 08.11.2020 – Lawsuit filed by his family
• 07.28.2020 – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is reopening an investigation into how a paramedic came to inject McClain with 500 milligrams of ketamine during his violent arrest, and its connection to his subsequent death.
  07.26.2020 – Interim police chief Wilson announced that she had fired Rosenblatt and two other officers over their connection to photos taken at a memorial for McClain last October. Another officer, Jaron Jones, resigned. In the images, Jones poses with his arm wrapped around officer Kyle Dittrich’s neck, a mocking imitation of the hold used on McClain. Both officers are smiling, while officer Erica Marrero grins over their shoulders.
• 06.25.2020 – Appointment of State attorney general Phil Weser as investigator
• 06.13.2020 – Three Colorado police officers reinstated and reassigned to “nonenforcement” duties
• 06.09.2020 – City Manager Jim Twombly agrees to undertake an independent investigation
• 06.09.2020 – Aurora interim police chief Vanessa Wilson announced that officers would be banned from using carotid holds, and obligated to intervene when they see another officer use excessive force. They will also have to declare their intention to shoot before firing their guns
• 11.2019 – Release of the bodycam footage
• 11.22.2019 – Adams County prosecutors announced that they would not bring charges against the trio, who then returned to normal duty
• 08.27.2019 – Death of Elijah McClain after a coma
• 08.25.2020 – 3 officers placed on paid administrative leave
• 08.24.2019 – Arrest

[Sources : The Cut, The Guardian, CNN, Aurora Police on YouTube, BBC, AP News, BuzzFeedNews]

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Dick Tench

June 13, 2019 – Greenville (SC)

62-year old. Shot multiple times

The spokesman, Lt. Ryan Flood, told reporters on June 13 that police were responding to a panic alarm on a cellphone that someone in the house triggered shortly before midnight. A lone deputy went to the house and rang the doorbell, where the armed homeowner “immediately jerked open the door and presented a handgun and pointed it directly at the deputy,” Flood said.

Flood said Deputy Kevin Azzara opened fire and shot the man multiple times, who was reported alive and recovering in a hospital. The deputy was placed on administrative leave with pay — the protocol for an officer involved in a shooting. The sheriff’s office echoed that account on its Facebook page the next day, accusing the homeowner of opening the door and aiming his weapon at the deputy.

[Sources: Wahsington Post, YouTube, Fox Carolina, USA Today, Tactical Life]

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Ronald Greene

May 10, 2019 – Monroe (FL)

49 year-old. Punched, kept in a chokehold and electrocuted

Ronald, an unarmed Black barber, died after being arrested by Louisiana State Police. During the arrest, he was stunned, punched, and dragged while handcuffed and shackled by at least six white troopers while he was attempting to surrender following a high-speed chase outside Monroe, Louisiana. Instead of rendering aid, the troopers left him unattended face-down for over nine minutes during the arrest.

Shortly after midnight, State Trooper Dakota DeMoss attempted to pull over Ronald for a traffic violation. Ronald did not stop, and troopers chased him on rural highways at over 115 mph. When he finally did, DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth rushed to Ronald‘s vehicle as Ronald said repeatedly, “OK, OK. I’m sorry” and appeared to raise his hands. Within seconds, Hollingsworth shot him with a stun gun through the driver’s window while commanding him to get out of the car.

After Ronald, who was unarmed, got out through the car’s passenger side, one trooper wrestled him to the ground, put him in a chokehold, and punched him in the face. Hollingsworth struck him multiple times. While they tried to handcuff him, one of the troopers said “He’s grabbing me,” and another said, “Put your hands behind your back, bitch.” Ronald cried, “I’m sorry!” and “I’m your brother! I’m scared!” Another trooper stunned Greene a second time, and said he would shoot again “if you don’t put your fucking hands behind your back.” After handcuffing him and shackling his legs, Trooper Kory York dragged Ronald facedown along the ground. Instead of rendering aid, the troopers left him unattended, facedown and moaning for at least nine minutes while they cleaned blood off themselves with sanitizer wipes. One trooper said, “I hope this guy ain’t got fucking AIDS.” Another trooper referred to Greene as a “stupid motherfucker.”

After several minutes, Ronald, unresponsive and bleeding from the head, was put in an ambulance, handcuffed to the stretcher. He was dead on arrival at the hospital.

Louisiana officials have denied repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused Ronald‘s death. Troopers initially told his family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Ronald struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.

Lee Merritt, the family’s attorney, said the footage “has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it.” Andrew Scott, a former Boca Raton, FL, police chief who testifies as an expert witness in use-of-force cases. “It suggests that you’re hiding something.” While noting Ronald “was not without fault” and appeared to resist the troopers’ orders, dragging the handcuffed man facedown by his ankle shackles was “malicious, sadistic, completely unnecessary.” Charles Key, another use-of-force expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant, questioned the troopers’ decision to leave Ronald unattended, handcuffed and prone for several minutes, calling the practice “just dead wrong. You don’t leave somebody lying on the ground, particularly after you’ve had this fight. The training has been for a number of years that, as soon as you get someone under control, you put them on their side to facilitate their breathing … and particularly this guy, because he was very heavy.”

A medical report states Ronald’s body was bruised, bloodied and had two stun-gun prongs in his back; the emergency room physician wrote that the troopers’ initial claim that Ronald had been killed in an encounter with a tree “does not add up.” An autopsy commissioned by the Greene family found severe injuries to his head and several wounds to his face.

Dakota DeMoss was arrested in February 2021 for a separate incident; he and two other Louisiana State Police troopers were charged with using excessive force while arresting a motorist in May 2020.^. An internal investigation concluded that when the motorist had surrendered face-down on the ground, DeMoss attacked him with a knee strike and a slap, then DeMoss turned off his own body camera. The investigation also determined that the motorist never resisted arrest, despite the troopers’ report.

Kory York was suspended without pay for 50 hours for the dragging and for improperly deactivating his body camera. He told investigators the device was beeping loudly and his “mind was on other things.”

Chris Hollingsworth later died in a single-vehicle highway crash that happened hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the Greene case.

• 05.18.2021 – AP obtains 46 minutes of body camera footage and releases an edited clip
• 09.09.2020 – Hollingsworth placed on paid leave, York suspended without pay for 50 hours, DeMoss receives a “letter of counseling” and “letter of reprimand” for violating rules about “courtesy” and recording equipment
• 08.25.2020 – State Police opens internal investigation
• 09.17.2020 – FBI’s New Orleans field office opens civil right probe
• 05.2020 – Federal wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family
• 05.10.2019 – Death of Ronald Green after police pursuit

[Sources: Democracy Now!, AP on YouTube, Oxygen, AP News, Nola, Wikipedia]

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Botham Shem Jean

September 6, 2018 – Dallas (TX)

26 year-old. Shot dead

Botham and his killer former Officer Amber Guyger lived in South Side Flats, a four-story apartment complex located at the corner of South Lamar Street and Powhattan Street—two blocks northwest of the headquarters of Dallas Police Department, for which Guyger worked as a patrol officer. The floor plans for each level of the building are mostly identical. Guyger‘s apartment on the third floor (number 1378), in which she had lived for approximately two months by the time of the murder, was located directly below Jean’s apartment on the fourth floor. The incident began just before 10 p.m. CT (11 p.m. ET) at the South Side Flats, an upscale apartment complex directly south of Dallas’ downtown.

Guyger left work at the end of a 13.5-hour shift. She drove to the apartment complex, parking her vehicle in the parking garage of the fourth floor. At this time, she was speaking over the phone with her partner. Still armed with a handgun but no longer wearing a body camera, Guyger walked to Botham‘s apartment, supposedly believing it was her own and failing to notice any signs that she was on the wrong floor, including a distinctive red doormat outside the apartment. Attempting to unlock the door, she noticed it was ajar.

She entered the apartment and found Botham, who was sitting in his living room eating ice cream, unarmed. Guyger fired her handgun twice at him, striking him in the chest. She would later testify that she believed him to be an intruder, and that she feared he would kill her. Guyger telephoned 9-1-1 at 9:59 pm. Botham was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his wound. The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting, which led to Guyger‘s arrest three days later.

One of the witnesses said right before the gunshots she heard a a woman’s voice saying, “Let me in, let me in.” This directly contradicts Guyger who at first claimed the door was locked, then said the door was unlocked, and then claimed the door was ajar. After the gunshots, one of the witnesses said she heard a man’s voice saying, “Oh my God, why did you do that?” Lee Merritt, one of the family’s attorney, believes that sentence was Jean’s final words.

Amber Guyger is currently imprisoned in the Mountain View Correctional Center. She will be eligible for release as early as September 2024, although her full sentence runs until September 2029.

• 08.05.2021 – Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas upheld Guyger‘s murder conviction, unanimously holding that the jury verdict was reasonable and Guyger‘s own testimony supported the murder charge
• 09.02.2020 – Botham’s Parents file lawsuit in Dallas County district court
• 08.07.2020 – Guyger‘s attorneys filed an appeal
• 12.2019 – Federal judge ruled that the city of Dallas was not liable for Guyger‘s off-duty shooting, dismissing the city from a civil lawsuit brought by Jean’s family
• 10.16.2019 – Guyger‘s attorneys filed a notice of appeal requesting a new trial
• 10.02.2019 – Guyger sentenced to 10 years in prison
• 10.01.2019 – Guyger found guilty of murder
• 11.30.2018 – Guyger indicted on murder charges by a Dallas County grand jury
• 09.24.2018 – Off. Amber Guyger fired from Police Department
• 09.09.2018 – Off. Amber Guyger arrestted
• 09.07.2018 – Texas Rangers launched an investigation
• 09.06.2018 – Killing of Botham

[Sources: NBC, News One, Wikipedia]

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Tamir Rice

November 22, 2014 – Cleveland (OH)

12-year old. Shot dead

Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African-American boy, was killed by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene. Two officers, Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, were responding to a police dispatch call regarding a male who had a gun. A caller reported that a male was pointing “a pistol” at random people at the Cudell Recreation Center, a park in the City of Cleveland’s Public Works Department.

At the beginning of the call and again in the middle, he says of the pistol “it’s probably fake.” Toward the end of the two-minute call, the caller states that “he is probably a juvenile“; however, this information was not relayed to officers Loehmann and Garmback on the initial dispatch.

The officers reported that upon their arrival, they both continuously yelled “show me your hands” through the open patrol car window. Loehmann further stated that instead of showing his hands, it appeared as if Rice was trying to draw: “I knew it was a gun and I knew it was coming out.” The officer shot twice, hitting Rice once in the torso. According to Judge Ronald B. Adrine, “…On the video the zone car containing Patrol Officers Loehmann and Garmback is still in the process of stopping when Rice is shot.” Rice died the following day.

Rice‘s gun was later found to be an airsoft replica that lacked the orange-tipped barrel, which would have indicated it was a toy gun.

A surveillance video of the incident was released by the police four days after the shooting, on 26 November. On 3 June 2015, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office declared that their investigation had been completed and that they had turned their findings over to the county prosecutor. Several months later the prosecution presented evidence to a grand jury, which declined to indict, primarily on the basis that Rice was drawing what appears to be an actual firearm from his waist as the police arrived. A lawsuit brought against the city of Cleveland by Rice’s family was subsequently settled for $6 million.

In the aftermath of the shooting it was revealed that Loehmann, in his previous job as a police officer in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, Ohio, had been deemed an emotionally unstable recruit and unfit for duty.

A review by retired FBI agent Kimberly Crawford found that Rice’s death was justified and Loehmann’s “response was a reasonable one”.

• 12.30.2020 – In a press release, Justice Department says it will not pursue criminal charges against the officers
• 10.10.2018 – Loehmann withdraws his application to the Bellaire police department, and his training ceased
• 10.05. 2018 – City of Bellaire, Ohio, hires Loehmann as a part-time officer
• 05.30.2017 – Mayor of Cleveland announces that Loehmann has been fired for concealing details about his past employment in his job application
• 03.15.2017 – 911 dispatcher Constance Hollinger suspended for eight days for failing to inform the responding officers that Rice was “probably a juvenile” and that the gun he had was “probably fake”
• 04.25.2016 – Lawsuit settled in an effort to reduce taxpayer liabilities, with the City of Cleveland agreeing to pay Tamir Rice’s family $6 million ($5.5 million to Tamir Rice’s estate, $250,000 to the child’s mother, and $250,000 to the child’s sister)
• 05.15.2015 – Mother Jones magazine reports that, six months after the shooting, while the sheriff’s department announced that it had almost concluded its investigation of the shooting, neither of the two officers involved had yet been interviewed by investigators from the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office
• 12.25.2015 – McGinty reports that the grand jury had declined to indict Loehmann or Garmback, saying, “Given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes, and communications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police.”
• 10.10.2015 – Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office releases two reports that McGinty had sought from outside experts about the use of force, one by retired FBI agent Kimberly Crawford, a second by Colorado prosecutor S. Lamar Sims
• 06.13.2015 – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty releases a redacted 224-page report of the investigation
• 06.11.2015 – Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine agreed that “Officer Timothy Loehmann should be charged with several crimes, the most serious of them being murder but also including involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, negligent homicide and dereliction of duty.”
• 06.03.2015 – Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office released a statement in which they declared their investigation to be completed and that they turned their findings over to prosecutor Tim McGinty, who was expected to review the report and decide whether to present evidence to a grand jury
• 05.12.2014 – Rice‘s family filed a wrongful death suit against Loehmann, Garmback, and the City of Cleveland in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• 11.26.2014 – Cleveland police released audio recordings and video of the incident
• 11.22.2014 – Death of Tamir Rice

[Sources : Democracy Now!, D.O.J., BuzzFeedNews, BBC News, The Guardian, Wikipedia]

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Michael Bell

November 9, 2004 – Kenosha (WI)

21-year old. Shot dead

Kenosha Police stopped Michael Bell, a white 21-year-old man, father of a 5-year old son, in his car in front of his parent’s home. Bell dashed up the driveway, and was grabbed from behind by two officers who pinned him against a parked car. Another officer pulled his weapon, placed it against Bell’s head and pulled the trigger, killing him.

The Kenosha Police Department conducted its own review, completely exonerating the officers. Bell’s father, Michael Bell, Sr., commissioned an independent inquiry that found the police account suggested a coverup. M. Bell sued the city of Kenosha over his son’s killing, and in 2010 the city paid $1.75 million to settle the suit after pretrial depositions uncovered inconsistencies in police accounts of the incident.

The Bells launched a campaign that succeeded in 2014, making Wisconsin the first state to require outside investigators conduct investigations into police shootings.

[Sources : Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Progressive, CBS News, Democracy Now!]

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Peter Yew

April 26, 1975 – New York City (NY)

27-year old. Beaten, arrested

Peter Yew was a Chinese-American engineer living in New York City’s Chinatown when he witnessed police brutally beating a Chinese 15 year old in a crowd that had gathered around the scene of a traffic accident. The two drivers, one Chinese, the other white, had been arguing bitterly and ramming into each other’s cars, demonstrators said.  He grew concerned and intervened, which led to Peter being beaten, strip-searched, arrested, and beaten again on charges of assault on a police officer.

Thousands of Asian-Americans took to the streets in protest against police brutality against their community. On May 19, the people in Chinatown started a demonstration for improved social services for minorities. This was one of the largest demonstrations ever in Chinatown, and though it was Peter Yew who sparked the protest and was the center of why it started, they also addressed the broader issues of the poor conditions and social services offered to Asian immigrants.

Police attempted to shut down the march, but protestors and activists fought them fist to fist, standing up for their rights and the release of Peter Yew. As a result of this movement, the officers who beat up Yew were suspended and charged with assault.

Because Peter Yew stood up against police brutality, he sparked a movement among the Chinatown residents, uniting old and young people towards a common goal of ending oppression against Asian-American immigrants.

• xx.xx.xxx – Officers suspended and charged with assault
• 05.13.1975 – Hearing on the case in Criminal Court
• 04.26.1975 – Beating and arrest of Peter Yew

[Sources: The New York Times, HyphenMagazine, Declarasian]

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