Gigi 🍄‍🟫Mar 30, 2024

Ho lee shit.
The AP has found that the number of deaths caused by the police in the US is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than thought because they're not always reported as being "officer-involved."

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The investigation found that between 2012 and 2021, more than a thousand people died after police use physical force that was not intended to be lethal. That includes batons, stun guns, physical restraints, and chemical agents. The oldest victim was 95 and the youngest 15.

Only 28 of the officers were charged.

The Police role was only cited in about half of the cases, meaning that many more Americans have died at the hands of the police than was previously known.
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Watch the PBS segment here
https://youtu.be/5rrMUfbGVlM?feature=shared

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle

Police tactics meant to stop people often ends up killing them, investigation reveals

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Show threadGrumble

@Gigi Is the story here that cops kill a lot of people, or is the story that the press doesn't typically tell the rest of us that the cops kill a lot of people?

I'm pretty sure that the cops who killed those people and the surviving families of the dead knew this was happening.

Mar 30, 2024 at 12:56amWeb
Show threadJustin MyersMar 30, 2024

@grumble209 @Gigi
The story here [1] is that cops' actions are directly responsible for a lot more deaths than police departments, prosecutors or even medical examiners let on.

Sometimes there's intent there. Sometimes there's ignorance. Sometimes there's indifference. But the result is the same.

[1] I was an editor at AP with some involvement while this project was in the works, but I left the organization several months ago and haven't had insight into how this all came together at the end.