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Is really police shots black people are racism? 

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Is really police shots black people are racism? 

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I heard much news about police shot black people. I am curious about if this happened by racism or not. Or police shootings on white does not get attention. I want to use this project to figure out if the police shootings on black people is mainly caused by racism.

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The United States is one of the greatest firearms-allowed country, so the police are having right to shot whenever they are facing any potential danger. Thus they are having right to shot. It is called Deadly force. Well it is an unimaginable situation for me and I just try to leave away from any of these cases. But, it still something really happened in the States.

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In April 4th, Michigan police shot a Black driver. It get public's attention immediately. From the video we can see the Black drive is unarmed, and he is trying to run away. But he still get shot. Would it be a necessary death?

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220414-michigan-police-shot-dead-black-driver-after-traffic-stop-videos-show

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A Black man face-down on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer in Michigan, the violent climax of a traffic stop, brief foot chase and struggle over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday.

Patrick Lyoya, 26, was killed outside a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The white officer repeatedly ordered Lyoya to "let go" of his Taser, at one point demanding: "Drop the Taser!"

Citing a need for transparency, the city's new police chief, Eric Winstrom, released four videos, including critical footage of the shooting recorded by a passenger in Lyoya's car on that rainy morning.

"I view it as a tragedy... It was a progression of sadness for me," said Winstrom, a former high-ranking Chicago police commander who became Grand Rapids chief in March. The city of about 200,000 people is about 150 miles (240 kilometres) northwest of Detroit.

Video shows Lyoya running from the officer who stopped him for driving with a license plate that didn't belong to the vehicle. They struggled in front of several homes while Lyoya's passenger got out and watched.

Winstrom said the fight over the Taser lasted about 90 seconds. In the final moments, the officer was on top of Lyoya, kneeling on his back at times to subdue him.

"From my view of the video, Taser was deployed twice. Taser did not make contact," Winstrom told reporters. "And Mr. Lyoya was shot in the head. However, that's the only information that I have."

State police are investigating the shooting. Kent County's chief medical examiner, Dr. Stephen Cohle, said he completed the autopsy but toxicology tests haven't been finished.

'Whole life ahead of him'

The traffic stop was tense from the start. Video shows Lyoya, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, getting out of the car before the officer approached. He ordered Lyoya to get back in the vehicle but the man declined.

The officer asked him if he spoke English and demanded his driver's license. The foot chase began soon after, video shows.

Winstrom didn't identify the officer, a seven-year veteran who is on paid leave during the investigation.

"Me being from Chicago for the last 20 years, I've handled many police shootings myself, so I do have a lot of experience in this," the chief said. "I was hoping to never have to utilise that experience here."

Video was collected from Lyoya's passenger, the officer's body-worn camera, the officer's patrol car and a doorbell camera. Prosecutor Chris Becker, who will decide whether any charges are warranted, objected to the release but said Winstrom could act on his own.

Becker said the public shouldn't expect a quick decision.

"While the videos released today are an important piece of evidence, they are not all of the evidence," he said.

City Manager Mark Washington warned that the videos would lead to "expressions of shock, of anger and of pain." Some downtown businesses boarded up their storefronts, and concrete barricades surrounded police headquarters.

Lyoya had two young daughters and five siblings, said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who spoke to his family.

"He arrived in the United States as a refugee with his family fleeing violence. He had his whole life ahead of him," Whitmer, a Democrat, said.

Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, speaking on behalf of Lyoya's family, on Wednesday called for the officer in the shooting to be fired and prosecuted.

"The video clearly shows that this was an unnecessary, excessive, and fatal use of force against an unarmed Black man who was confused by the encounter and terrified for his life," Crump said in a release.

Crump and Lyoya's family are expected to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon.

Protests

More than 100 people marched to Grand Rapids City Hall before a City Commission meeting Tuesday night, chanting " Black lives matter " and "No justice, no peace."

On Wednesday, several hundred protesters gathered outside the Grand Rapids Police Department following the release of the videos, with some cursing and shouting from behind barricades. The group demanded that officials make public the name of the officer in the shooting.

Some businesses cut their hours short Wednesday, closing early. Some boarded up windows. But the demonstration remained non-violent with protesters demanding justice for Lyoya and other Black lives lost in shootings involving police.

Winstrom last week said he met Lyoya's father, Peter Lyoya, and that they both cried.

"I get it as a father. ... It's just heart-wrenching," the chief told WOOD-TV.

As in many American cities, Grand Rapids police have been occasionally criticised over the use of force, particularly against Black people, who make up 18% of the population.

In November, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit over the practice of photographing and fingerprinting people who were never charged with a crime. Grand Rapids said the policy changed in 2015.

A downtown street has been designated Breonna Taylor Way, named for the Black woman and Grand Rapids native who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched drug raid in 2020.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)

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Michigan police shot Black driver dead after traffic stop, videos show

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A Black man face-down on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer in Michigan, the violent climax of a traffic stop, brief foot chase and struggle over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday.

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This news happened in 2020. This shooting did not causes death but reactions of public was huge. Even some professional sports teams went for protest. As a result, "prosecutors in Kenosha County Circuit Court dropped one count of third-degree sexual assault and agreed to drop one count of criminal trespass if Mr. Blake pleaded guilty to two counts of disorderly conduct. " This is also a case that I believe shoot is not necessary.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/jacob-blake-shooting-kenosha.html

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What We Know About the Shooting of Jacob Blake

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The police shooting ignited protests in Kenosha, Wis. After separate investigations, the district attorney and the Justice Department decided not to charge the officer who shot Mr. Blake.

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Higher Black Americans rate are killed then White Americans

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Higher Black Americans rate are killed then White Americans

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"The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans"

From the database, we can see 1,596 Black Americans are killed by the police, but White people have a lager number 3,024. At the same time White Americans have a larger population. Through the rate, would we say Black people is easily shot by the police?

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1050 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year

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1050 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

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On average, police in the United States shoot and kill more than 1,000 people every year, according to an ongoing analysis by The Washington Post.

After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that data reported to the FBI on fatal police shootings was undercounted by more than half. That gap has widened in recent years. By 2021, only a third of departments' fatal shootings appeared in the FBI database.

This is largely because local police departments are not required to report these incidents to the federal government. Also compounding the problem: an updated FBI system for reporting data and confusion among local law enforcement about reporting responsibilities.

As part of its investigation, The Post began in 2015 to log every person shot and killed by an on-duty police officer in the United States. Since then, reporters have recorded thousands of deaths. In 2022, The Post updated its database to standardize and publish the names of the police agencies involved in each shooting to better measure accountability at the department level.

How 2023 compares with previous calendar years

The number of fatal police shootings has risen slightly in recent years. Police killed the highest number of people on record in 2022.

Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans

Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for roughly 14 percent of the U.S. population and are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate.

Most victims are young

More than half of people shot and killed by police are between 20 and 40 years old.

An overwhelming majority of the victims are male - over 95 percent.

Explore the data

This database contains records of every person shot by an on-duty police officer since Jan. 1, 2015, as well as the agencies involved in each event. It is updated regularly as fatal shootings are reported and as facts emerge about individual cases.

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Police shootings database 2015-2023: Search by race, age, department

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Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics since January 2015, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.

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Also from the database, We see that 7002 Male were shot by the police, and only 334 Female were. Would it be sexism?

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I believe that whatever which race, they both have good people and bad people. I don't think Black people have higher rate of bad people, but the data shows a higher rate of Black American getting shot. Those two news shows the unnecessary of the deadly force. I would conclude that some of shootings contains the causes of racism. I hope that deadly force will be the most last choice for the police when they face those situation. I believe protecting lives of people in the nation is their duty. Including the live here in front of them.