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BLKS 288 Black Lives Matter -- Professor Crosby: Organizations, Activism, etc.

Racial Violence -- Selected Cases

Rodney King - Watts (Los Angeles) - March 3, 1991
Sean Bell - Queens, New York City - November 25, 2006
Oscar Grant - Oakland, CA - January 1 , 2009
Trayvon Martin - Sanford, Florida - February 26, 2012
Jordan David - Jacksonville, FL - November 23, 2012
Jenisha McBride - Dearborn Heights, MI - November 2, 2013
Eric Gardner, - New York City - July 17, 2014
John Crawford III - Beavercreek, Ohio - August 5, 2014
Michael Brown, - Ferguson - August 9, 2014
Tamir Rice - Cleveland - November 22, 2014
Floyd Dent - Inkster, Michigan - January 28, 2015
Walter Scott Shooting - North Charleston, S. C. - April 4, 2015
Freddie Gray Death in Police Custody - Baltimore, Md. - April 19, 2015
Charleston, S.C. Church Shooting -June 17, 2015
Sandra Bland Arrest and Death in Police Custody - Texas - July 13, 2015
Samuel DuBose Shooting - University of Cincinnati - July 19, 2015
James Blake - New York City - September 2015
Philando Castile - St. Paul, MN - July 6, 2016

Police Brutality

Fatal Encounters
Database in progress of all deaths through police interaction in the United States since Jan. 1, 2000.
"We're Compiling Every Police-Involved Shooting In America. Help Us." - Deadspin
Deadspin has enlisted crowdsourcing to scour Google day-by-day for information about police related shootings, and to create a database from the results.
"Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014" - Gawker
Gawker took information that the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted, naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York, and added more detailed accounts of many of those.

Police Encounters, Arrests, Protests, etc.: Rights, Safety, and Documenting

Safety Tips for Hate Violence and Police Violence In light of hate violence and police violence experienced by LGBTQ New Yorkers, AVP shared Safety Tips for Hate Violence and Police Violence in 2013.

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