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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@Gigi
And sometimes the just dispose of the bodies of their victims like what happened in Jackson Mississippi with the unmarked graves behind the county jail.
If we as a nation won't or cannot hold the #police accountable for killing citizens, how the hell do we expect to hold authoritarian elected official accountable for their illegal behavior?
Let's just say, police murdering citizens has become normalized. Next it's President killing their political rivals that might become the norm? Obviously, no POTUS would ever consider killing their rivals in this day and age, right? Right???????
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