A memorial in Seattle was created April 12 after the police shooting in Minnesota of Daunte Wright.Photo: David Ryder/Getty
During three weeks of testimony in the murder trial of former police officerDerek Chauvinin connection withGeorge Floyd’s death, at least 64 other people were killed at the hands of law enforcement, according to a new analysis.
A memorial at the Minneapolis site where George Floyd was killed.Getty
Chauvin, 44, a white former Minneapolis police officer, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Floyd, 46, a Black man, who lost consciousness while detained on the ground with Chauvin’s knee pinned to his neck for about nine minutes during Floyd’s arrest May 25 for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill.
A June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles after the death of George Floyd.Rich Fury/Getty Images
Black and Latino victims represent more than half of those killed as of Saturday.
“There’s just so many factors that people have already made up their minds and they think that law enforcement is based off of race,” Yoes, who is white, told theTimes.
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“This adrenaline starts going out of the roof,” Johnson told theTimes. “And why? It’s because we don’t have these experiences and these understandings of each other. And in some cases, it’s about humanity. We don’t see them in the same human way that we see ourselves.”
Police have killed 319 people in 2021, according toMapping Police Violence, a research and advocacy organization whose tally includes deaths, like Floyd’s, that did not involve a gun.
Through April 4, the organization says there were only three days where police did not kill someone.
source: people.com
