First thing that needs to be noted is that we just had another police shooting of an unarmed man in Austin, Texas on Thursday night.. This happened after the report was compiled, so add another name to this grisly toll..

Second, folks have got to understand this is not coincident, it’s quite deliberate. Police have moved from a point of trying to de-escalate or prevention to a shoot first ask questions later policy..

The list below are just noting the deaths at hands of the police, its not highlighting the enormous amounts of brutality and outright disrespect many in the Black community have to endure on a daily basis.. The report below is to say the least disturbing and underscores a low wage war going on in our communities…

Twenty-eight Black People (27 Men and 1 Female) Killed by Police Officials, Security

Guards, and Self-Appointed “Keepers of the Peace” between January 1, 2012 and March

31, 2012

– 28 cases of state sanctioned or justified murder of Black people in the first 3

months of 2012 alone have been found (due to under reporting and discriminatory

methods of documentation, it is likely that there are more that our research has yet

to uncover)

– Of the 28 killed people, 18 were definitely unarmed. 2 probably had firearms, 8

were alleged to have non-lethal weapons.

– Of the 28 killed people,

. 11 were innocent of any illegal behavior or behavior that involved a

threat to anyone (although the shooters claimed they looked “suspicious”);

. 7 were emotionally disturbed and/or displaying strange behavior.

. The remaining 10 were either engaged in illegal or potentially illegal

activity, or there was too little info to determine circumstances of their

killing. It appears that in all but two of these cases, illegal and/or harmful

behavior could have been stopped without the use of lethal force.







[4]This list of28 names was collected between 3/28/2012 and 3/30/2012 by reviewing google

search results to the question, “who have police killed in 2012”. Only the first 65 pages out of

712,000,000 were reviewed.

[5] News One.com reported Rodriguez was African America however other reports and family

photos indicate he was Latino.

[6] Many written reports do not explicitly identify the race of the victim. Most, however, do show

photographs. In the case of Warren, no photo was displayed.

This document was researched, written and produced by Kali Akuno and Arlene Eisen working

on behalf of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Black Left Unity Network, and US Human

Rights Network.

Phillip Gardiner, Dr. P. H.

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