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Emmett Till was dragged from his bed at night and beaten and shot to death because he was accused of "harassing" a white woman -
Till's mother held Emmett's funeral publicly and with an open casket so that the community could see what society had done to her son. -
Parks was arrested on scene because she was refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Stood up in front of the crowd at the Prayer Pilgrimage and gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, was shot and killed by James Earl Ray while King was standing on a motel balcony -
He was shot in the head by a police officer (Robert Torsney) at age 15 in the process of returning home after walking his grandmother to the bus stop. -
Ferguson was 23 years old and unarmed when he was killed at point-blank range by undercover police officer Louis Rivera on March 1, 2000. Five days before his death, Ferguson had been arrested for protesting the shocking acquittal of four cops who had shot immigrant worker Amadou Diallo 41 times -
Sean Bell was shot in New York City, Queens on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot when a total of 50 rounds were fired by New York City police in both plainclothes and undercover. -
The trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin brought mixed emotions for the family of Milwaukee's Derek Williams. The 22-year-old died in Milwaukee police custody 10 years ago. He suffocated in the back of a police squad car. The officers were never charged. -
he was run over by a NYPD police car. when he collied with the vehicle he died from head injuries -
Four security guards have been charged in connection with the 2014 death of a man after an altercation at Northland Mall in Southfield. The guards are accused of restraining McKenzie Cochran in 2014. Cochran died from compression asphyxia on the floor of the Northland Shopping Mall. -
He was shot several times by police responding to a 911 call. He died later that day in a hospital. -
Edwards was shot and killed Saturday night as he and a group of friends were leaving a house party. The party had attracted a ton of teens so a neighbor called police, worried about possible underage drinking. when the cops arrived teens scattered. jordan got into a car and one officer shot into the vehicle with a rifle as it was driving away, hitting Edwards in the head. He was sitting in the front seat. -
He was shot and killed in Meadowview, Sacramento, California by Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, in the backyard of his grandmother's house while he had a phone in his hand. The officers stated that they shot Clark, firing 20 rounds, believing that he had pointed a gun at them when it was really just a mobile phone -
She was killed by a white police officer because they though she was a suspect and was then shot accidently because she was the wrong person. -
Kanye West offered to pay the legal fees for Breonna's funeral and etc. -
George Floyd was killed due to police brutality. He had been suffocated to death and he was accused of resisting authorities so he was put in a choke hold that killed him minutes later. -
Floyd's death caused the community to become anarchy. -
Derek Chauvin was taken into custody 4 days after he killed Floyd -
About half of a million people joined protests in 550 places across the country.