Responding to long running complaints about the lack of national data available for how often police resort to deadly force, the FBI on Monday announced plans to track and publish the statistics.
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VIDEO: Citizens Order Cop To “Drop the Gun” When He Pulled it on Unarmed Woman — It Worked
Citizens on a bus in Boston were able to de-escalate a potentially dangerous situation after a cop pulled his gun on an unarmed woman.
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Chicago Moms Take to the Street to Prevent Violence, Doing a Better Job than Cops & Gun Control
Gun control and thousands of cops couldn’t do what this small group of courageous and caring mothers are doing in America’s deadliest city.
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The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive
The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year. Read their stories and contribute to our ongoing, crowdsourced project
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Are any politicians concerned about this?
Why the deaths of Latinos at the hands of police haven’t drawn as much attention
Kris Ramirez never saw police as a threat. Growing up, his body didn’t tense with us-versus-them dread when police cruisers drove through his Southeast Los Angeles neighborhood.
“If someone is wearing a uniform,” Ramirez said, “you show respect.”
Then last year, four days before Halloween, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed his brother, Oscar Jr., along railroad tracks near Paramount High School. Deputies said the 28-year-old didn’t comply with orders and moved his arm in “a threatening manner.” Ramirez was unarmed.
Police killings of Latinos in L.A. County since 2000
The Ramirez family marched in front of the Paramount sheriff’s station and held vigils, but they struggled to find wider support for their cause. As the family grieved, the national Black Lives Matter movement picked up energy, bolstered locally by the fatal shooting of Ezell Ford, a mentally disabled black man, by LAPD officers.
Watching the protests over Ford’s killing, Kris Ramirez felt frustrated: “Why can’t we get that same type of coverage or help?”
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We know #OscarGrant, unarmed, was shot in the back by Bart police, but did you know #OscarRamirez, unarmed, was shot in the back by police?
#LatinosAreHuman #BlackLivesMatter
Native Americans get shot by cops at an astonishing rate.
Cops Say they Killed a Man After He Charged at Them, But Witnesses, Video Show That’s Not True
Protests erupt in Denver after surveillance video showed the police narrative of why they killed a man to be false.
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US Police Kill More in Days than Other Countries do in Decades
More people were killed by American police in just the last three days than were killed in 2014 in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and Iceland — combined.
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Anyone feel safe with U.S. police?
22 Year Police Veteran Kills Wife
“He was no longer a sergeant for the Neptune Township Police Department. He turned into a criminal and a murderer,” said Marc Lemeiux of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.”
Sergent Phillip Seidle, a 22 year veteran of New Jersey’s Neptune Township Police department, is currently in custody on charges of 1st Degree Murder, 2nd Degree unlawful possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose and 2nd degree endangering the welfare of a child.
Charges came after Seidle ,51, chased his ex wife down as she drove with their 7 year old daughter.
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White guy with gun. Cops do not shoot him.
White guy kills woman. Cops do not shoot him.
With their actions, cops are saying White male lives matter.