2022

July

Thursday the 7th

• Tear Gas Grenade Thrown During SWAT Standoff Over a Parole Violation Causes House Fire That Kills 15-Year-Old Brett Rosenau

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

May

Friday the 6th

• Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims in book that Trump wanted to have George Floyd protesters shot in the legs or something

  • VIOLENCE
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

  

April

Monday the 4th

• Patrick Lyoya, 26 year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is shot in the back of the head by Grand Rapids Police officer Christopher Schurr after traffic stop

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

March

Tuesday the 1st

• Three Republican House Members (Andrew Clyde, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy) vote against Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act

  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

  

  

  

February

Wednesday the 23rd

• Walter Hutchins is ambushed and killed by plain-clothed bounty hunters

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

Wednesday the 2nd

• Amir Locke, 22, shot and killed by Minneapolis police officer Mark Hanneman during execution of no-knock warrant. No Charges Filed.

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

2021

December

Sunday the 5th

• Quadry Sanders shot and killed by Police Officers Nathan Ronan and Robert Hinkle while unarmed and with hands in the air. Officers charged with manslaughter.

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

April

Tuesday the 20th

• Amanda Chase, Right-wing gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, on conviction of Derek Chauvin: "it makes me sick"

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

  

2020

October

Tuesday the 20th

• Marcellis Stinnette fatally shot by officer Dante Salinas, who has been fired and charged with murder.

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

June

Friday the 12nd

• Rayshard Brooks, 27 year-old unarmed black man, Shot and killed by Atlanta Police officer in Wendy's parking lot

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

May

Monday the 25th

• George Floyd, a 46 year-old black man, was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin while handcuffed on ground

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

Wednesday the 6th

• Dreasjon Reed, 19 year-old black man, shot and killed after chase by Indianapolis police who claimed he fired at them. Witnesses say he was unarmed.

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

March

Friday the 13rd

• Breonna Taylor, 26, shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police during execution of search warrent by plainchothes officers

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

February

Sunday the 23rd

• Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, murdered by 3 white men while jogging in Glynn County Georgia

  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

2016

July

Wednesday the 6th

• Philando Castile shot and killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez during traffic stop

  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

2015

Tuesday the 21st

• Sandra Bland, 28 year-old black woman, found hanging in Waller County Texas Jail Cell. The jail and police department settled for 1.9 million.

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

2014

November

Saturday the 22nd

• Tamir Rice, 12 year-old black boy with toy gun, shot and killed by Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann within seconds of responding to 911 call

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • BLACK LIVES MATTER