A prominent #CivilRights attorney, Ben Crump, is asking a court in #NorthCarolina to release #police body camera footage in the death of a Black man, #JamesLanier, shot by officers.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183931293/ben-crump-asks-n-c-court-to-release-bodycam-footage-of-black-man-killed-by-polic

#news #KilledByPolice #BlackLivesMatter #policeshooting #JusticeForJamesLanier

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Attorneys for #PatrickLyoya say there is no evidence that a former #GrandRapids police officer, #ChristopherSchurr, feared for his life before fatally shooting Lyoya a year ago.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/04/former-police-officer-not-in-fear-of-patrick-lyoya-before-deadly-shooting-attorneys-say.html

#news #BlackLivesMatter #killedbypolice #Michigan

5 fired #Memphis #police officers were charged Thurs with murder & other crimes in the killing of #TyreNichols, a Black motorist who died 3 days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said that the officers, who are all Black, each face charges of 2nd-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct & official oppression.

https://apnews.com/article/tyre-nichols-police-officers-charged-48d48f2137a2f34482274edb1bd1bab2

#news #BlackLivesMatter #KilledByPolice

A cousin of #BlackLivesMatter co-founder died after #LosAngeles #Police repeatedly tased him last week, acc to police body-camera footage & his family's account. #KeenanAnderson, a 31yo high school teacher & father, was trying to get help after a traffic collision when he was chased, held down by multiple officers & tased for over 90 seconds as he begged for help.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/14/1149132089/keenan-anderson-patrisse-cullors-lapd-body-cam-footage

#news #LAPD #KilledBypolice #policebrutality #justiceforkeenananderson #PoliceReformNow #defundthepolice

#UnicornRiot #BlackLivesMatter
[continued] ... and the street art, the graffiti, can't forget about the fresh paint reading Amir's name, #JusticeForAmir & MPD Murdered #AmirLocke that has marked the city landscape over the last week since Locke was #KilledByPolice in #Minneapolis. More: https://t.co/FLb5lNwXyo https://t.co/tgTdyLnuzF

RT @UR_Ninja@twitter.com

At least 6,416 people were #KilledByPolice in #Brazil last year, setting a record high. This year after several massacres, police are on pace to break the record again. https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/police-in-brazil-killed-record-amount-of-people-in-2020/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1437206325172350980

https://archive.org/details/oldkbpreconstruct

2013-2018 u.s. police killings data

Topics
#KilledByPolice, #killedbypolicenet, #statistics, #genocide, #unitedstatesofamerika, #antiblackness, #ACAB, #FTP, #antiblackracism, #fascism, #police, #policing, #slavepatrols, #21stcentury, #executions

this is a re-presentation of data on killedbypolice.net, a site which recorded incidents of police killing people in the 50 states of the united states of amerika. for the time period covered (1 may 2013 - 31 july 2018), this is a more exhaustive dataset than many in use today. (the current owner of the domain killedbypolice.net is an entirely different entity than that which maintained the website during the period covered by this dataset.)

* column key
G=Gun; T=Taser; R=Restraint/Physical Force; C=Chemical; V=Vehicle; O=Other

data source pages
2013: https://archive.vn/I8Skq
2014: https://archive.vn/1FeQT
2015: https://archive.vn/1Y32s
2016: https://archive.vn/h2qBK
2017: https://archive.vn/GB46F
2018: https://archive.vn/gbhOM