Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery
misconducted as a suspect
In February 2020, officers of the Atlanta, Georgia Police Department shot and killed a 25-year-old black man, Ahmaud Arbery. The man went for a jog when police received a report that Arbery looked like a man suspected of a series of robberies in the area.
The officers went after him in their patrol car, while allegedly they asked the man to stop several times, as they wanted to “just talk”. After the unarmed African-American slowed down, the police began to interrogate him. According to police, Arbery attacked one of the officers, making the second one to use deadly force. Three shots rang out, and the man fell to the ground. Later, an autopsy showed that there were no drugs or alcohol in his blood. The video of the murder of 25-year-old Arbery caused outrage across the country, and civil rights activists said that this is another example of a targeted attack on a black man.
In February 2021, Arbery’s mother filed a $ 1 million lawsuit against the city and the police department, claiming that the murder was racially motivated, but in May 2021, the officers involved in his death pleaded themselves not guilty to the man’s death during an ongoing trial.
Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was pulled over by law enforcement officers in Memphis, Tennessee, allegedly for reckless driving. The father of a four-year-old child, who was into photography, died in hospital three days after the beating, and after the officers published the body-camera footage, the largest protests since the murder of George Floyd […]
Darryl Williams
Darryl Tyree Williams, 32, died Jan. 17, 2023, after North Carolina law enforcement officers used excessive force. Minutes before his arrest, the man had repeatedly warned law enforcement officers that he was experiencing heart problems and any interaction could be fatal to him. Police officers noticed boxes of alcohol in Williams’ vehicle, after which they […]
Anthony Lowe
In late January 2023, police in Los Angeles, California, shot a Anthony Lowe, black man with two amputated limbs more than 10 times. According to police, they were responding to a report of a man in a wheelchair who had allegedly hit or attempted to hit someone earlier in the day. Minutes after officers arrived, Anthony […]
Savannah Graziano
In late September 2022, 15-year-old Savannah Graziano was shot and killed by law enforcement officers in San Bernardino, California. The girl had been abducted by her father, who was in the process of divorcing his wife. After obtaining a description of the kidnapper’s vehicle and finding it on an expressway, police officers began a pursuit. […]
Richard Wershe
In January 1988, officers of the Detroit, Michigan Police Department framed 52-year-old Richard Wershe, forcing him to help the police. The FBI recruited a man after he helped identify members of a drug trafficking gang. Wershe worked as an informant for two and a half years, and when the police detained a suspected gang, the […]
Brian Chaney
In July 2021, officers of the Keego Harbor, Michigan Police Department used excessive force in the illegal arrest of 48-year-old black Brian Chaney. According to the man, that day he went to training after taking his two sons to the gym. He claims that a police officer drove up to him in a patrol car […]