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On Sunday, October 18, 2015, at about 3:15 am, Nouman K. Raja, working as a plainclothes police officer wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap, in an unmarked white van with tinted windows, [17] stopped by what he said was an abandoned vehicle at the southbound exit ramp of Interstate 95 and PGA Boulevard. Raja, on duty doing burglary ...
The International Day Against Police Brutality occurs on March 15. It first began in 1997 as an initiative of the Montreal-based Collective Opposed to Police Brutality and the Black Flag group in Switzerland. A march is held yearly in Montreal. Acceptance of March 15 as a focal day of solidarity against police brutality varies from one place to ...
An analysis published by The Guardian in May found 32 percent of black people killed by police this year were unarmed, compared to 15 percent of white people and 25 percent of Hispanic and Latino ...
A solid black square, used by many to represent Blackout Tuesday. Blackout Tuesday was a collective action to protest racism and police brutality. [1] [2] The action, originally organized within the music industry in response to the murder of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the killing of Breonna Taylor, [3] took place on Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
The country's biggest police union wants Amazon to stop selling what it calls an offensive shirt supporting Black Lives Matter.
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A total of 43 people died: 33 were black and 10 were white. Among the black deaths, 14 were shot by police officers; 9 were shot by National Guardsmen; 6 were shot by store owners or security guards; 2 were killed by asphyxiation from a building fire; 1 was killed after stepping on a downed power line; and 1 was shot by a federal soldier. [80]
Black men are about 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police. Black boys ages 15 to 19 are 21 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement than their white peers.