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Kelly Thomas
Thomas was a mentally ill and homeless man killed by police officers which sparked a nationwide outcry. His death came on July 10, five days after the 37-year-old was beaten by officers. -
Gil Collar
Collar was an 18-year-old student when he was killed by a University of South Alabama police officer, Trevis Austin. -
Andy Cruz
Cruz was a 13-year-old boy shot dead after a deputy sheriff in Santa Rosa, northern California, said he believed Cruz was carrying a real rifle. -
Eric Garner
Garner was killed after a New York police officer used a banned chokehold technique to restrain him, despite being unarmed. -
Michael Brown
Brown was an unarmed black teenager shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer on the street Ferguson, Missouri. -
Ezell Ford
Ford was shot by two Los Angeles police officers despite being unarmed. According to a LAPD statement, the officers tried to stop him but there was a struggle. Police said the mentally ill 25-year-old then tried "to remove the officer's handgun from its holster". -
Laquan McDonald
Responding to an area where a man had reportedly been breaking into trucks and was carrying a knife, police came across Laquan McDonald, 17. He was walking away from police officers when Officer Jason Van Dyke shot him 16 times. -
Tamir Rice
Twelve-year-old Rice was shot by Ohio police in a public park as he was playing with a BB gun. It was reported at the time that a man called police saying someone was brandishing a pistol but added it was "probably fake". -
Sureshbhai Patel
Mr Patel was left partially paralysed, his family says, after being beaten by police in Alabama. -
Walter Scott
Walter Scott was pulled over for a broken brake light. He got out of the car and started to run away, when Officer Michael Slager shot him eight times.Officer Slager was charged with murder after a bystander video came out showing him shooting Scott in the back. -
Freddie Gray
Freddie Gray, 25, was arrested for having an illegal switchblade. He was handcuffed and put into the back of a police van. A week later, he was dead from a spinal cord injury sustained in police custody. -
Alton Sterling
Alton Sterling was selling CDs outside a convenience store when police responded to a 911 call alerting them to a man with a gun. Two officers approached Sterling pinned him to the ground and then at least one of them shot him.