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How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd [themarshallproject.org]

 

By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images, The Marshall Project, August 6, 2022

A Black man in Massachusetts alleges that police tackled him in a case of mistaken identity in 2021, pinning him down with a knee to the neck. According to a lawsuit filed this week, Donovan Johnson cried “I can’t breathe!” but the officer “continued to pin Mr. Johnson to the ground with his knee.”

In Houston, another Black man was fatally shot in the back of the head and neck by an officer investigating an alleged shoplifting incident from a dollar store in July. Body camera footage released last week shows the man, 47-year-old Roderick Brooks, briefly grabbed the officer’s Taser before the shooting, but let go of it when the officer reached for his gun.

More than two years after millions of Americans took to the streets following the murder of George Floyd, familiar stories about police violence persist. By the numbers, 2021 was the deadliest for police shootings since The Washington Post began tracking them in 2015. The database Mapping Police Violence found similar results.

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