Police of USA killing black people : From Selma to Ferguson
13 juin 2015, 07:44
The number of people killed by police so far this year topped 500 this week as the nationwide epidemic of police violence continued, with cops killing 20 people over the past seven days alone.
The US media largely has ignored the 500-victim milestone, with headlines this week dominated by the attempt to whip up law-and-order hysteria around the massive manhunt to recapture two inmates who recently escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
The 500th fatality of the year, according to one database of police killings, occurred Monday night when members of the Maricopa County SWAT team gunned down 69-year-old Richard Warolf, a suicidal man, during a courtesy call requested by his family in Sun City, a suburb of Phoenix.
The following night, a police officer in Des Moines, Iowa shot and killed unarmed 28-year-old Ryan Bollinger through the window of her squad car after a two-minute low-speed chase.
The nine other people killed by police since Monday include : Matthew Wayne McDaniel, a 35-year-old from Florida ; Rene Garcia, a 30-year-old California man killed during a traffic stop ; Mario Ocasio, a 51-year-old from New York City, killed by a Taser ; Jeremy John Linhart, 30 years old from Ohio, also killed during a traffic stop ; Ross Anthony, 25, from Dallas, killed by a Taser ; an unknown suicidal 45-year-old male from the Houston area ; QuanDavier Hicks, 22, from Cincinnati ; Isiah Hampton, 19, from New York City ; an unknown homeless man from Miami, shot five times by an officer, and Charles Allen Ziegler, 40, from Pompano Beach, Florida.
The judicial system, meanwhile, continues to shield killer cops from prosecution. On Thursday, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty dismissed an advisory ruling from a local judge that found that the police involved in the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio last year could be charged with a crime.
The number of people killed by police so far this year topped 500 this week as the nationwide epidemic of police violence continued, with cops killing 20 people over the past seven days alone.
The US media largely has ignored the 500-victim milestone, with headlines this week dominated by the attempt to whip up law-and-order hysteria around the massive manhunt to recapture two inmates who recently escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
The 500th fatality of the year, according to one database of police killings, occurred Monday night when members of the Maricopa County SWAT team gunned down 69-year-old Richard Warolf, a suicidal man, during a courtesy call requested by his family in Sun City, a suburb of Phoenix.
The following night, a police officer in Des Moines, Iowa shot and killed unarmed 28-year-old Ryan Bollinger through the window of her squad car after a two-minute low-speed chase.
The nine other people killed by police since Monday include : Matthew Wayne McDaniel, a 35-year-old from Florida ; Rene Garcia, a 30-year-old California man killed during a traffic stop ; Mario Ocasio, a 51-year-old from New York City, killed by a Taser ; Jeremy John Linhart, 30 years old from Ohio, also killed during a traffic stop ; Ross Anthony, 25, from Dallas, killed by a Taser ; an unknown suicidal 45-year-old male from the Houston area ; QuanDavier Hicks, 22, from Cincinnati ; Isiah Hampton, 19, from New York City ; an unknown homeless man from Miami, shot five times by an officer, and Charles Allen Ziegler, 40, from Pompano Beach, Florida.
The judicial system, meanwhile, continues to shield killer cops from prosecution. On Thursday, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty dismissed an advisory ruling from a local judge that found that the police involved in the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio last year could be charged with a crime.