A newly discovered video purportedly shows James Dudley Barker facedown with his hands behind him near the intersection of I Street and Second Avenue when a Salt Lake City police officer shoots him three times in the back.
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Although the number of cops charged with murder or manslaughter sharply spiked last year, not a single officer was convicted for these unjustified deaths. With less cops killed in the line of duty in 2015, the number of people killed by police increased yet again.
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@MayaSchenwar @FlowersAlison when its Black and Brown Americans they don't use tasters anyway. They forget they even have them.
— Jerry Moffett Sr. (@JerryMoffettSr) January 5, 2016
FL: Jail officer charged with throwing scalding hot water on inmate https://t.co/nJlzhfUyA9 Story by @DavidOvalle305 pic.twitter.com/mPnCdZrUxW
— Cop Crime (@CopCrime) December 31, 2015
Police killed at least 336 black people in 2015. One killing #every26hours. https://t.co/vqURbJHXRj
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) January 6, 2016
Honolulu, HI – Jamie Kalani Rice, a native Hawaiian, has filed a federal complaint against Honolulu police for an unprovoked beating he received from Officer Ming Wang, which was captured on videotape.
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Las Vegas, NV — The mother of a police officer is recovering from her injuries after being shot by her own child and in-law with whom she lives.
North Las Vegas police announced last week that no charges will be filed against the officer and her husband who fired more than two dozen rounds at their mother as she returned home around 11:30 pm.
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by Shaun King
It is now abundantly clear that Matthew Ajibade was murdered by police in Savannah, Georgia. For over 10 months, police and prosecutors have concealed the video evidence of his murder not only from the public, but from Ajibade’s closest friends and family members. His death in police custody was ruled a homicide by coroners, but the whole of Savannah’s government has colluded in covering up the sadistic and brutal murder of a beloved artist and photographer who was a student at Savannah College of Art and Design.
The video below is awful and is confirmation that the United States tortures and kills its prisoners on American soil. Torture is not something that happens far away in Abu Ghraib: It’s happening here.
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White Woman points BB gun at Cop yells, ‘What are you doing, shoot me!’ TAKEN ALIVE #blacklivesmatter #TamirRice https://t.co/anOrxVRcyM
— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 29, 2015
We have empowered people to kill, and then said—loudly, publicly—that won’t be held accountable if they abuse that power.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) December 28, 2015
Dozens protest outside Dearborn Police HQ after Cop kills #KevinMatthews #blacklivesmatter
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— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 30, 2015
#JeremiahSmith sues Chicago PD as new Video Proves Cops lied, Beat and framed him #BlackLivesMatter
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— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 30, 2015
Nearly half the 184 Georgians shot and killed by police since 2010 were unarmed or shot in the back – https://t.co/R5MbEyUDlU
— Dr. Scott Bowman (@DrScottBowman) December 30, 2015
Unarmed black man, #KevinMatthews, shot by police in Detroit, family wants answers https://t.co/7c5dX8SBWj pic.twitter.com/T2nqCeCHIX
— RT America (@RT_America) December 28, 2015
Your never too old #BettieJones 55 or too young #Tamirrice 12, They will gun you down #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/uixpWVwryS
— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 30, 2015
ATTORNEY A CASE OF ‘WALKING WHILE BLACK’ Cops beat almost kill 15 yo boy #BlackLivesMatter
https://t.co/w6ybEyiLdg pic.twitter.com/FF8Lng7wvt
— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 30, 2015
Grand Rapids, MI — Suffering permanent physical and mental damage after a Michigan police officer savagely beat his head bloody with a flashlight, an unarmed teen recently filed a federal lawsuit against the cops for violating his Fourth Amendment rights. Although the teen was cleared of the charges against him, none of the officers involved in the beating received any disciplinary action.
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Quintonio LeGrier was killed Saturday by Chicago police. He and at least 246 other people with mental health problems have been fatally shot by U.S. police in 2015.
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