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Valley Oak
12-04-2014, 12:49 PM
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The Huffington Post, 12.3.14:

American Cops Kill With Startling Frequency Compared To Other Nations (https://American Cops Kill With Startling Frequency Compared To Other Nations)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTpcK80irdQi_tvC4_DY5Rm-1I8itXvJN&v=0fv92JZgQIg#t=35

“Michael Brown’s death was part of a tragic and unacceptable pattern: Police officers in the United States shoot and kill civilians in shockingly high numbers. How many killings are there each year? No one can say for sure, because police departments don’t want us to know.

According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, in 2013 there were 461 “justifiable homicides” by police — defined as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” In all but three of these reported killings, officers used firearms...