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Police said he was a suspected looter, but the looted business's owner denied this. Banks died on August 14 from his injuries. [13] July 25, 1967 Arthur Johnson: 36 Detroit, Michigan: Police shot Johnson and Williams inside a looted pawn shop. Police said Johnson had a club, but it was never produced by police. [13] Perry Williams: 33 July 25, 1967
University of Texas at El Paso police responded to reports of a naked man who ran after a female's car. When police arrived, "the naked man was combative and they had to use a taser to subdue him and take him into custody". The man became "unconscious and unresponsive", and was later pronounced dead. [8] 2020-06-27 Aloysius Larue Keaton (58) Black
The Augusta Riot was a collective rebellion of Black citizens in Augusta, Georgia, and the largest urban uprising in the Deep South during the Civil Rights era.Fueled by long-simmering grievances about racial injustice, it was sparked by White officials’ stonewalling in the face of Black citizens’ demand for answers about the beating death of Black teenager Charles Oatman.
In 2020, the police killing of Breonna Taylor and the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd sparked racial unrest over systemic racism and police brutality against African Americans. Riots during the summer resulted in destruction of property, mass looting, monument removals , and incidences of violence by counter-protesters and police ...
Unknown race Athens, GA [20] 2020-09-21 Name Withheld Hispanic Nogales, AZ [21] [22] [23] 2020-09-21 Dearian Bell (28) African American Georgia (Atlanta) Police attempted to detain a man who had been suspect in a domestic violence call. He jumped into his car, and refused to get out, but did not drive off. He then ran out and police attempted ...
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after a traffic stop involving five Memphis police officers, saw the video footage of the arrest ...
Excessive force reports made up more than 23 percent of all police misconduct reports in 2010, according to the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. Of those excessive ...
In addition, there is a perception that victims of police brutality often belong to relatively powerless groups, such as racial or cultural minorities, the disabled, and the poor. [74] Beginning in the 1960s, police departments began to offer cultural sensitivity and diversity trainings. [131]