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Steve Biko
Biko was arrested many times for his anti-apartheid work and, on September 12, 1977, died from injuries that he'd sustained while in police custody. http://www.biography.com/people/steve-biko-38884#synopsis -
Rodney King
In 1991, a videotape circulated around the world of Rodney King being beaten by L.A.P.D. officers after they put an end to the 8-mile high speed chase. -
Abner Louima
Abner Louima is a Haitian immigrant who was brutally attacked and tortured by a white New York police officer on Aug. 9, 1997. NYPD officer, Justin Volpe, took Louima into the restroom of the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn and sodomized the young man with a broken broomstick and then put it in his face.
http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-worst-cases-of-police-brutality-in-history.html -
Amadou Diallo
The four officers fired 41 times into the Bronx apartment building because they thought Diallo had a gun. The undercover officers said Diallo looked suspicious and thought he might have been assisting in a robbery or other criminal. http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-worst-cases-of-police-brutality-in-history.html -
Timothy Thomas
Timothy Thomas was tragically shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer, who followed the young man down a dark alley and opened fire because he thought Thomas had a gun. When Thomas began lowering his arms without instruction, Officer Roach opened fire and shot Thomas in the heart with a single bullet. There was no gun ever found on Thomas.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/what-really-happened-cincinnati-12172.html
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Frank Jude
In 2004, 26-year-old Frank Jude was viciously beaten by several off-duty Milwaukee police officers as he was leaving a party. The group of men attacked Jude and his friend, Lovell Harris, claiming they stole one of the officer’s wallets that contained a police badge. http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/US/story?id=630928 -
Robert Davis
Robert Davis, a retired elementary school teacher from New Orleans, was arrested and brutally beaten by police on suspicion of public intoxication. He was attacked by four police officers who said he was belligerent and resisted arrest by not allowing them to handcuff him.
http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-worst-cases-of-police-brutality-in-history.html -
Kathryn Johnston
Kathryn Johnston was tragically killed by two Atlanta police officers during a botched drug raid in 2006. The 92-year-old woman was alone inside her home when the officers burst in without warning. The officers were told by an undercover informant that he bought drugs from a dealer there named "Sam" however, the man who claimed to be the informant said he never bought drugs at Johnston’s house
http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-worst-cases-of-police-brutality-in-history.html -
Sean Bell
Sean Bell was killed by NYPD detectives who fired 50 times at the car Bell and his friends were riding in on Nov. 25, 2006. On the night of the shooting, a group of undercover officers were investigating a Queens, New York, strip club that was allegedly allowing prostitution. After the nonjury trial came to an end, the judge found all three detectives not guilty of manslaughter and assault. http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-worst-cases-of-police-brutality-in-history.html -
Robert Mitchell
Last week, a 16-year-old Michigan boy died after police fired a Taser “stun gun” on him. Robert Mitchell fled police after a routine traffic stop Friday morning, in Warren, Michigan, an industrial suburb adjacent to Detroit. Although Mitchell posed no danger, police pursued him on foot to an abandoned building in Detroit, where they claim they Tasered him once. Mitchell was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
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Police Corruption
Crooked cop caught by own dashcam stealing from dying motorcycle crash victim
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Jesus Huerta
During his six-minute, 30-second press conference, Lopez said Huerta had been searched and handcuffed before he was driven to police headquarters where the shooting took place in the parking lot. Lopez said the gun was not a police officer’s weapon.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-claim-teen-shot-head-handcuffed-seat-patrol-car/#w6AhRycKjXvkbobe.99 -
Police Brutality
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Police Misconduct
Four Florida Police Officers Fired After Racist Video, Texts
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Walter Scott
In North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, a black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer.
An unarmed 50-year-old black man, was shot in the back and killed by white police officer Michael Slager in North Charleston – a shooting that prompted widespread public outcries and protests.
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Freddie Gray
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray, Jr., a 25-year-old Black American man, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department for possessing what the police alleged was an illegal switchblade. While being transported in a police van, Gray fell into a coma and was taken to a trauma center.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32400497