Black and Unarmed and Killed by the Police…an incomplete list…This is America….

By Dilip -
Black and Unarmed and Killed by the Police…an incomplete list…
This is America….

Beloved William Green, 1/27/20 (Prince George’s County MD, 
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Beloved Samuel David Mallard, 1/16/20 (Cobb County GA, 19 years old)
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Beloved George Floyd, 5/25/20 (Minneapolis MN, 46 years old)
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Beloved Ahmaud Arberry, 5/12/20 (Brunswick GA, 25 years old)
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Beloved Sean Reed, 5/6/20 (Indianapolis IN, 21 years old)
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Beloved Steven Demarco Taylor, 4/18/20 (San Leandro CA, 33 years old)
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Beloved Breonna Taylor, 3/13/20 (Louisville KY, 26 years old)
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Beloved Jamee Johnson, 12/14/19 (Jacksonville FL, 22 years old)
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Beloved Michael Dean, 12/3/19 (Temple TX, 28 years old)
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Beloved Ariane McCree, 11/23/19 (Chester SC, 28 years old)
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Beloved Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, 10/12/19 (Fort Worth TX, 28 years old)
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Beloved Miles Hall, 6/2/19 (San Francisco CA, 23 year old)
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Beloved Juston Landry, 1/11/19 (Lake Charles LA, 26 years old)
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Beloved Emantic “E.J.” Bradford, 11/22/18 (21 years old)
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Beloved Shem Botham Jean, 9/5/18 (Dallas TX, 26 years old)
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Beloved Antwon Rose, 6/19/18 (Pittsburgh PA, 17 years old)
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Beloved Dedorah Danner, 10/18/16 (Bronx NY, 66 years old)
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Beloved Alfred Olango, 9/27/16 (El Cajon CA, 38 years old)
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Beloved Keith Lamont Scott, 9/20/16 (Charleston NC, 43 years old)
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Beloved Terence Crutcher, 9/16/16 (Tulsa OK, 40 years old)
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Beloved Korryn Gaines, 8/1/16 (Randallstown MD, 23 years old)
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Beloved Paul O’Neal, 7/28/16 (Chicago IL, 18 years old)
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Beloved Philando Castile, 7/20/16 (Falcon Heights MN, 32 years old)
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Beloved Alton Sterling, 7/5/16 (Baton Rouge LA, 37 years old)
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Beloved Jamar Clark, 11/15/15 (Minneapolis MN, 24 years old)
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Beloved Jeremy McDole, 9/23/15 (Wilmington DE, 28 years old)
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Beloved Samuel DuBose, 7/19/15 (Cincinnati OH, 43 years old)
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Beloved Sandra Bland, 7/13/15 (Waller County TX, 28 years old)
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Beloved William Chapman, 4/22/15 (Portsmouth VA, 18 years old)
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Beloved Freddie Gray, 4/12/15-4/19/15 (Baltimore MD, 25 years old)
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Beloved Walter Scott, 4/4/15 (North Charleston SC, 50 years old)
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Beloved Eric Harris, 4/2/15 (Tulsa OK, 44 years old)
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Beloved Phillip White, 3/31/15 (Vineland NJ, 32 years old)
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Beloved Meagan Hockaday, 3/28/15 (Oxnard CA 26 years old)
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Beloved Tony Robinson, 3/6/15 (Madison WI, 19 years old)
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Beloved Jerame Reid, 12/30/14 (Bridgeton NJ, 36 years old)
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Beloved Rumain Brisbon, 12/2/14 (Phoenix AX, 34 years old)
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Beloved Tamir Rice, 11/22/14 (Cleveland OH, 12 years old)
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Beloved Akai Gurley, 11/20/14 (Brooklyn NY, 28 years old)
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Beloved Tanisha Anderson, 11/13/14 (Cleveland OH, 37 years old)
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Beloved Kajieme Powell, 8/19/14 (St. Louis MO, 25 years old)
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Beloved Ezell Ford, 8/12/14 (Florence CA, 25 years old)
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Beloved Michael Brown, 8/9/14 (Ferguson MO, 18 years old)
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Beloved John Crawford III, 8/5/14 (Beavercreek OH, 22 years old)
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Beloved Tyree Woodson, 8/3/14 (Baltimore MD, 38 years old)
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Beloved Eric Garner, 7/17/14 (New York NY, 43 years old)
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Beloved Dontre Hamilton, 4/30/14 (Milwaukee WI, 31 years old)
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Beloved Victor White III, 3/22/14 (Iberia Parish LA, 22 years old)
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Beloved Yvette Smith, 2/16/14 (Bastrop TX, 47 years old)
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Beloved McKenzie Cochran, 1/28/14 (Southfield MI, 25 years old)
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Beloved Jordan Baker, 1/16/14 (Houston TX, 26 years old)
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Beloved Andy Lopez, 10/22/13 (Santa Rosa CA, 13 years old)
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Beloved Terrance Franklin, 5/10/13 (Minneapolis MN, 22 years old)
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Beloved Miriam Carey, 10/3/13 (Washington DC, 34 years old)
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Beloved Jonathan Ferrell, 9/14/13 (Bradfield Farms NC, 24 years old)
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Beloved Eugene Jackson Jr, 7/26/13 (Austin TX, 32 years old)
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Beloved Deion Fludd, 5/5/13 (New York NY, 17 years old)
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Beloved Kimani Gray, 3/9/13 (New York, 16 years old)
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Beloved Johnnie Kamahi Warren, 12/10/12 (Dotham, AL, 43 years old)
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Malissa Williams, 11/29/12 (Cleveland OH, 30 years old)
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Timothy Russell, 11/29/12 (Cleveland OH, 43 years old)
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Beloved Rekia Boyd, 3/21/12 (Chicago IL, 22 years old) 
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Beloved Reynaldo Cuevas, 9/7/12 (New York NY, 20 years old)
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Beloved Chavis Carter, 7/29/12 (Jonesboro AR, 21 years old)
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Beloved Kendrec McDade, 3/24/12 (Pasadena Ca, 19 years old)
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Beloved Shereese Francis, 3/15/12 (New York NY, 30 years old)
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Beloved Wendell Allen, 3/7/12 (New Orleans LA, 20 years old)
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Beloved Nehemiah Dillard, 3/5/12 (Gainesville FL, 29 years old)
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Beloved Dante Price, 3/1/12 (Dayton OH, 25 years old)
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Beloved Sgt Manuel Loggins Jr, 2/7/12 (Orange County CA, 31 years old)
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Beloved Ramarley Graham, 2/2/12 (New York NY, 18 years old)
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Beloved Kenneth Chamberlain, 11/19/11 (White Plains NY, 68 years old)
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Beloved Kenneth Harding, 7/16/11 (San Francisco CA, 19 years old)
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Beloved Raheim Brown, 1/22/11 (Oakland CA, 20 years old)
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Beloved Derrick Jones, 11/8/10 (Oakland CA, 37 years old)
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Aiyana Jones, 5/16/10 (Detroit MI, 7 years old)
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Beloved Steven Eugene Washington, 3/20/10 (Los Angeles CA, 27 years old)
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Beloved Aaron Campbell, 1/29/10 (Portland OR, 25 years old)
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Beloved Oscar Grant, 1/1/09 (Oakland CA, 22 years old)
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Beloved DeAunta Terrel Farrow, 7/22/7 (West Memphis AR, 12 years old)
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Beloved Sean Bell, 11/25/06 (New York NY, 23 years old)
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This is the list of my people as I have researched.  It is not an exhaustive list. I had to stop because my body ached and my heart hurt. Here is the first unarmed Black man that I knew to have been murdered by the police: My Beloved Uncle, Earl Augustus Simien, 6/26/1959 (San Francisco CA, 37 years old) Say His Name

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