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Officers from the Jackson Police Department and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on student protesters at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University), killing two of them. James Earl Green: 17 June 20, 1970 Jerry Lee Amie: 24 Los Angeles, California: Police responded to reports of a man with a gun and shot Amie.
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 ...
On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi.According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times in the head and chest.
Six former Mississippi police officers, including some calling themselves "The Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one ...
The police department in a majority-Black town in Mississippi has consistently violated the rights of residents with illegal arrests, as well as by retaliating against department critics ...
Monica Lee sat outside her parents' home, where a former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy pummeled her son, who died hours later in the hospital. It was a sweltering afternoon in Braxton — the ...
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]