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Students Speak Up: What Bias Means to Them

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In Memoriam

The universe shrank
when you went away.
Every time I thought your name,
stars fell upon me.
- Henry Dumas (poet, social activist, teacher)

Updated June 9, 2021

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Note

This memorial is in honor of those unarmed black and brown people killed by the police, sheriff deputies, and security guards. The list is organized by most recent incident of police brutality (David McAtee and George Perry Floyd) and then moves back in time. I have listed each person by their name; birth and death dates; the location of their death; the means of death, date of death, and name of the police department.

I culled the names from a variety of online sources including Black Lives Matter's protests; Wikipedia; Black Past; Dangerous Objects, a website run by Mercy Garriga, that investigates cases of excessive use of force and death by the police force; and Professors Cassandra Chaney and Ray V. Robertson's essay "Armed and Dangerous? An Examination of Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Black People by Police." I have included women from the #SaveHerName project because we often ignore the injustices and violence that black women experience from the police: police brutality is real for women as it is for men.

At the age of twenty-four, a friend introduced me to the radical and astonishingly beautiful poetry and writing of Henry Dumas. His poetry serves as the epitaph for this memorial; Dumas is the last entry on this list, shot by New York City Transit Police on May 23, 1968.

- Renée Ater, May 29, 2020

** Many thanks to Cecilia Wichmann and Mary Savig for their fact checking of this list, including adding birth dates from the Social Security Death Index and links to additional news stories.

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Sources

Fatal Force, Washington Post
2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
2019: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/
2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/
2017: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/
2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/
2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/

"What We've Learned About Police Shootings 5 Years After Ferguson," Washington Post, August 9, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/09/what-weve-learned-about-police-shootings-years-after-ferguson/?arc404=true

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