Unjust police killing black people in America

In recent events we have been seeing more and more news reports on police officers in America killing men without the right to a public and fair trial.

Here are some facts I found;

• Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. (See which police departments were responsible for these deaths)
•    Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to under reporting
•    37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population
•    Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015
•    Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, will be sentenced May 31.


This Comic art image is showing a black women being pulled over by two white police officers, by reading the speech bubble you can see that she is scared for her life and doesn't know if she will be killed or arrested.


In the guardian they have an article describing how a police officer shot dead an unarmed black citizen, as well as how the shootings of innocent black people had lead to a protest.

Now black people are more scared then ever in America, scared that if they do anything wrong it will be there last day on earth.

I  chose this topic to represent Equality to a fair and public hearing. Innocent until proven guilty as lots of unarmed black citizens of the USA were not given a fair trial before being killed.

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