Washington | These names are chanted angrily in protests across the United States: here are African Americans victims of iconic homicide or recent police blunders.
This 26-year-old hospital emergency department worker was killed by police in her own apartment on March 13, 2020 in Louisville, in the heart of the United States.
Three officers, acting under an erroneous wanted poster, broke down the door of Ms Taylor, who was sleeping with her companion, who had a license to carry a weapon. An exchange of gunfire occurred, the man explaining that he believed in a criminal intrusion.
The police, who had not activated their mandatory hand-held camera, hit the young woman with at least eight bullets. They then wrote an intervention report riddled with errors, before being suspended. But, more than 170 days later, none have been arrested and tensions remain high in this Kentucky city.
Stars like Beyoncé, LeBron James or Oprah Winfrey demand that justice be done in this case.
The 46-year-old man died of suffocation by a white Minneapolis policeman who applied his knee to his neck for eight or nine minutes on May 25, 2020.
Given the extremely shocking circumstances of this intervention and the fact that it was filmed by witnesses, the death of George Floyd sparked a nationwide mobilization movement against racism and police brutality.
This groundswell then crossed American borders and is still making its effects felt around the planet on questions of the treatment of ethnic minorities and the re-reading of colonial histories.
The face of George Floyd, a father of three whose last job was a security guard, has become a symbolic image brandished as an icon in anti-racist rallies across the United States.
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The 25-year-old jogger was shot dead in broad daylight on February 23 while running in a residential area in Brunswick, Georgia. Two armed white men, an ex-policeman and his son, chased him, claiming he was a burglar.
The homicide sparked outrage, as the two men were not prosecuted by authorities until two months later, when a video shot by a third man was posted on social media.
The three men were subsequently charged with murder. But, more than six months after the events, it is still unclear why no one was arrested for 74 days, when the conditions for Ahmaud Arbery’s death were well established.
The 29-year-old motorist is hemiplegic after being shot in the back by a police officer on August 23 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The scene was filmed by a witness and the two officers involved suspended from their duties.
Jacob Blake was riddled with bullets in front of his three sons, sitting in the car he was planning to leave. A knife was found on the floor of the vehicle, authorities said.
Three months after the death of George Floyd, the fate of Jacob Blake has revived anti-racist protests in American cities. Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden spoke by phone with the hospitalized victim on Thursday.
This 41-year-old African-American man, suffering from mental health problems, died of suffocation by police after his arrest on March 23 in Rochester, New York.
While Mr. Prude was naked in freezing temperatures, officers put a canvas bag around his head to, they say, keep him from spitting. They held him down, by force, until he lost consciousness.
The scandal erupted on Wednesday after the family released a video of the arrest. The mayor of Rochester on Thursday ordered the suspension of seven officers involved.
The 18-year-old black boy was shot dead in the chest by Washington police on Wednesday. Carrying a weapon in his hand, he was fleeing the agents who had come to question him.
According to poor quality footage from the pedestrian camera carried by an officer, Deon Kay does not appear to be pointing his gun at the police when he is hit.