The Slaughter Continues: 176 Civilians Killed by Police so Far in 2015

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/civilians-killed-by-police_b_6801510.html

One-hundred-seventy-six civilians were killed by police in January and February, according to news clippings collected by killedbypolice.net.

Of course, the greatest outrage of all is that no one really knows how many people are killed by police annually. FBI Director James B. Comey said last month, "You could tell me how many people, the absolute number, bought a book on Amazon. It's ridiculous I can't tell you how many people were shot by police in this country last week, last year, the last decade."

Most people killed by police are not armed with a gun. Only a small fraction of perpetrators are killed during or after a gunfight.

The people killed by police are generally not nice guys. They are deranged with mental problems, drug addicts, drunks, car thieves, shoplifters, vagrants, wife beaters--punks of all kinds and generally up to no good. But, they don't deserve to die.

[sabrina 1]

1. I don't know about that last sentence. 'Not nice people. Deranged with mental problems, drug addicts

drunks'

Those are all people who need medical care. And 12 year olds playing with toy guns can't be described as 'not nice people' either.

We have no mental health system in this country. THAT is why they are on the streets, many of them homeless, becoming more ill due to lack of care, or in Jail. Or dead by cop, as the article states.

Those doing the killing are not 'nice people' either.

Drug addiction and alcoholism doesn't mean someone 'isn't a nice person'. Well not to me, that is.