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George Floyd - answer 46 yr old AA man murdered by police in
Minneapolis, MN. on May 25, 2020, when Derek Chauvin, a white
Minneapolis police officer, knelt on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and
46 seconds; 2 minutes and 53 seconds of which occurred after Floyd
became unresponsive. Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on
the road, while Chauvin had his knee on his neck.
Ahmaud Arbery - answer 25-year-old AA man, fatally shot near
Brunswick, GA, while jogging on February 23, 2020, Arbery had been
pursued and confronted by two white residents, Travis McMichael
and his father Gregory, who were armed and driving a pickup truck.
Arbery was unarmed.
Eric Garner - answer On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a 44 yr old AA
man, died in the New York City borough of Staten Island after Daniel
Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, put him
in a chokehold while arresting him for allegedly selling "loosie"
single cigarettes. Garner repeated the words "I can't breathe" 11
times while lying face down on the sidewalk.
Trayvon Martin - answer The fatal shooting of this 17 yr old AA male
in Sanford Florida on February 25, 2012 sparked controversy when
the man responsible for the shooting, George Zimmerman, invoked
a "Stand Your Ground" defense. As a result of this case a national
debate about racial profiling and 'stand your ground' laws ensued.
,Michael Griffith - answer 23-year-old Michael Griffith (March 2, 1963
- December 20, 1986), who lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was
killed after being hit by a car as he was chased onto a highway by a
mob of white youths who had beaten him and his friends. Griffith's
death was the second of three infamous racially motivated killings
of black men by white mobs in New York City in the 1980s. The other
victims were Willie Turks in 1982 and Yusuf Hawkins in 1989.
Philando Castile - answer On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile,[a] a 32-
year-old African-American, was pulled over whilst driving in Falcon
Heights, Minnesota, and killed by Jeronimo Yanez, a Latino 29-year-
old St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer. Castile, who was driving,
and Diamond Reynolds who was in the in the passenger seat of a car
at 9:00 p.m. with her four-year-old daughter when the vehicle was
pulled over by Yanez and another officer in a suburb of Saint Paul,
Minnesota.[3][4] After being asked for his license and registration,
Castile had told Officer Yanez that he had a firearm, to which Yanez
replied, "Don't reach for it then", and Castile said "I'm, I, I was
reaching for..." Yanez said "Don't pull it out", Castile replied "I'm not
pulling it out", and Reynolds said "He's not..." Yanez repeated "Don't
pull it out"[5] and then shot at Castile at close range seven times,
hitting him five times, with two hits piercing his heart.
Breonna Taylor - answer On March 13, the 26-year-old aspiring nurse
was killed in her apartment, shot at least eight times by Louisville
police officers who officials have said were executing a drug
warrant, according to a lawsuit filed by the family, accusing officers
of wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. Taylor's
boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was also in the apartment and,
according to the family's lawsuit, shot at officers when they
attempted to enter without announcing themselves.
Oscar Grant III - answer 22-year-old AA man who was fatally shot in
the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police
Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to
reports of a fight, BART Police officers detained Grant and several
other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station.
BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced the
unarmed Grant to lie face down on the platform. While Pirone held
, Grant down in a prone position, Mehserle drew his pistol and shot
Grant in the back. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland
and pronounced dead later that day.
Freddie Gray - answer On April 12, 2015, Gray, a 25-year-old black
man, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department and
subsequently charged for possessing a knife.[2] While being
transported in a police van, Gray fell into a coma and was taken to
the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.[3][4] Gray died on April
19, 2015; his death was ascribed to injuries to his spinal cord.[4] On
April 21, 2015, pending an investigation of the incident, six
Baltimore police officers were suspended with pay
Michael Brown - answer On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-
year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson
police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a
suburb of St. Louis. A struggle took place between Brown and
Wilson after the former reached through the window of the police
SUV, a Chevrolet Tahoe.[34] Wilson was armed with a SIG Sauer
P229[35] pistol, which was fired twice during the struggle from
inside the vehicle, with one bullet hitting Brown's right hand.[34]
[35] Brown and Johnson fled and Johnson hid behind a car.[36]
Wilson got out of the vehicle and pursued Brown.[37] At some point,
Wilson fired his gun again, while facing Brown, and hit him with at
least 6 shots.[9] Brown was unarmed and died on the street
Emmitt Till - answer 14-year-old African American who was lynched
in Mississippi, on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending
a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his
murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to
the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the
United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights
movement
4 Little Girls - answer (Addie May Collins, Carol Denise McNair,
Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) A local chapter of the
Ku Klux Klan placed bombs at the 16th Street Baptist Church and
set them off on Sunday morning September 15, 1963. Four young
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