Throughout Trial Over George Floyd's Death, Killings by Police Mount

[Nevilledog]

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Kyle Griffin
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Since testimony in Derek Chauvin's trial began on March 29, more than three people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement.
Protesters marching in the wake of the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was killed by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minn.

Throughout Trial Over George Floyd’s Death, Killings by Police Mount
Since testimony in Derek Chauvin’s trial began on March 29, more than three people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement.
nytimes.com
12:00 PM · Apr 18, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/us/police-shootings-killings.html

MINNEAPOLIS — Just seven hours before prosecutors opened their case against Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, a Chicago officer chased down a 13-year-old boy in a West Side alley and fatally shot him as he turned with his hands up.

One day later, at a hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., officers fatally shot a 32-year-old man, who, the police say, grabbed one of their Tasers. The day after that, as an eyewitness to Mr. Floyd’s death broke down in a Minneapolis courtroom while recounting what he saw, a 40-year-old mentally ill man who said he was being harassed by voices was killed in Claremont, N.H., in a shootout with the state police.

On every day that followed, all the way through the close of testimony, another person was killed by the police somewhere in the United States.

The trial has forced a traumatized country to relive the gruesome death of Mr. Floyd beneath Mr. Chauvin’s knee. But even as Americans continue to process that case — and anxiously wait for a verdict — new cases of people killed by the police mount unabated.

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[Journeyman]

1. The Washington Post reports that since 2015 homicides by police has held steady at 1000 a year . . .

which would be 2.74 a day.

It's an ongoing problem that has been with us for years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Interesting article

about the history of cop killings in the US on Raw Story today. Long but worth it.
https://www.rawstory.com/adam-toledo/

[littlemissmartypants]

3. I suggest cross post to Editorials & Other Articles

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1016

You can get more eyes on it that way.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It's an unreformable system.

Abolish it.

[gratuitous]

5. The cops' way of saying "You might get one of us"

"But you'll never try every murderer in our ranks."