The protests that have erupted in cities across the United States in the last week are a visceral response to two recent police killings of black Americans: Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn.
But the demonstrations also represent simmering anger over similar high-profile cases in recent years, each with circumstances that had many people demanding police accountability that, in most cases, never came.
Here is a look at some of those cases.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/police-killings-recent-history-george-floyd-1.5593768
Showing posts with label Garner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garner. Show all posts
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Booker demands answers from Barr on lack of charges in Garner killing - The Hill
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) criticized the Justice Department’s decision not to charge a New York police officer in the 2014 death of Eric Garner in a letter to Attorney General William Barr.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/453579-booker-demands-answers-from-barr-on-lack-of-charges-in-garner-killing
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/453579-booker-demands-answers-from-barr-on-lack-of-charges-in-garner-killing
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
'I Can't Breathe' Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner : NPR
On July 17, 2014, an unarmed black man named Eric Garner died on Staten Island, N.Y., after police officers threw him to the ground and put him in a choke hold. Garner's last words, as recorded on a cellphone video, were: "I can't breathe." He repeated the phrase 11 times....
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559498678/i-can-t-breathe-explores-life-and-death-at-the-hands-of-police
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559498678/i-can-t-breathe-explores-life-and-death-at-the-hands-of-police
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