Shades on Nostr: by #SamanthaMichaels in #MotherJones: "Across the United States, the police fatally ...
by #SamanthaMichaels in #MotherJones:
"Across the United States, the police fatally shoot more than 1,000 people every year, representing nearly 5 percent of all homicides—a higher death toll than from mass shootings. Some of these cases make national news, but most don’t. Even less attention is paid to the families left behind: thousands of people, disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and Latino, who must navigate not only their grief, but the stress of protests and the press, not to mention agonizing questions of how to seek accountability from the officers who killed their loved ones."
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/06/after-the-police-kill-your-loved-one-who-can-you-lean-on/
#PoliceShooting #police #shooting #violence #PoliceBrutality
"Across the United States, the police fatally shoot more than 1,000 people every year, representing nearly 5 percent of all homicides—a higher death toll than from mass shootings. Some of these cases make national news, but most don’t. Even less attention is paid to the families left behind: thousands of people, disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and Latino, who must navigate not only their grief, but the stress of protests and the press, not to mention agonizing questions of how to seek accountability from the officers who killed their loved ones."
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/06/after-the-police-kill-your-loved-one-who-can-you-lean-on/
#PoliceShooting #police #shooting #violence #PoliceBrutality