From Eric Garner to George Floyd, 12 black lives lost in police encounters that stoked mass protests.
Rice, 12, was alone at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland on Nov. 22, 2014, playing with a replica toy Airsoft gun when a 911 dispatcher received word from a caller that a male was in the park randomly pointing a gun at people.Tamir RIce is seen in this undated photo provided by his family.
Castile told Yanez that he did have a registered gun in the car, prompting Yanez to say,"Don't reach for it then." Castile's girlfriend,, claimed Castile was reaching for his driver's license and told the officer he wasn't pulling out the gun. Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharged of a firearm. A jury acquitted him of the charges in June 2017, but he was fired from his job by the City of St. Anthony. The city also reached ashot multiple times in Sacramento
An undated family photograph of Stephon Clark who was holding his cellphone when he was fatally shot Sunday night by two Sacramento police officers who fired at him 20 times, the department said Tuesday.
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