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Police and National Guardsmen shot three people in apartments after reports of sniper fire. [11] Rebecca Brown: 29 Hattie Gainer: 53 July 15, 1967 William Furr: 25 Newark, New Jersey: Police shot Furr as he fled a looted liquor store. [11] July 16, 1967 Michael Pugh: 12 Newark, New Jersey: National Guardsmen shot Pugh as he went to take his ...
Race Location Description 2024-05-31 John Perry (63) White Saybrook Township, Ohio: Police responded to a call reporting a man aiming a gun at neighbors and children. After attempts to negotiate with the suspect failed, the man opened fire, striking SWAT vehicles. The responding officers returned fire and killed the man. [1] 2024-05-30
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
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Former Mississippi police officer gets about 10 years in prison for racist torture of 2 Black men MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS March 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM
On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that Jenkins and Parker had entered the ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for the victims of a racist episode of police torture say new policies unveiled by a Mississippi sheriff's department this week were introduced so the sheriff can ...
In absolute numbers, police kill more white people than any other race or ethnicity, understood in light of the fact that white people make up the largest proportion of the US population. [48] As a percentage of the U.S. population, black Americans were 2.5 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police in 2015. [48]