Since the start of the year over 500 people have been killed by America’s police forces. Prior to this year there was no actual accounting for the hundreds of people killed each year, as there are no laws or actual rules which forces police departments to compile accurate data of citizens they kill.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations have said they do not have accurate data of the people killed in the name of law-enforcement.
In many cases the victims are unarmed some suffering from mental issues.
Since the beginning of the black lives matter campaign, more people are being sensitized to the serious problem of police murder in the United States.
There is still very stiff opposition to scrutiny of police, largely by white pro
killed unnecessarily by st Louis police.Yes you may be legally justified to kill, but are you morally justified?
police groups and individuals who are not opposed to cops killing blacks whether they are innocent or not.
In many cases cops do not hide their prejudices as was the case in San Francisco California where cops tweeted to each other that Killing Black People Is Okay Because “It’s Not Against The Law To Put An Animal Down”.
Despite the vile nature of these comments , hardly any of this made it to the main stream Media.
Shocking as these numbers are they are not new. they are simply more obvious now that people are actually recording police and more Americans are paying attention.
Additionally there is evidence that many cops are engaged in the horrible practice of planting evidence and falsifying records in order to gain convictions.
As you might imagine the victims of these atrocities are usually Blacks , Latino, and poor whites.
Black Community leaders and grass-roots Organizations look to the FBI to take over and investigate instances where local District Attorneys refuse to charge police when they commit crimes.
The problem with that strategy is that the FBI maintains surveillance assets on black demonstrators who march for accountability of police actions.
Even as the Agency purports to be engaged in some instances in Investigating misconduct of the very same police…
Data from the Guardian shows that black Americans, particularly young black men, face a higher likelihood of being killed by police than their non-black peers. The Guardian’s reporting supports that finding, showing that 28.2 percent of all people killed by police this year have been black, despite making up just 13.2 percent of the population.