Police Officer Eric Talley (51), Boulder, COīorder Patrol Agent Alejandro Flores-Bañuelos (35), Salton City, CA Trooper Joseph Gallagher (38), Brentwood, NYĬorporal Kyle Davis (38), Bartlesville, OKĬorrectional Officer Robert McFarland (46), Anamosa, IA Police Officer William Evans (41), Washington, D.C. Lieutenant James Kouski (58), Hometown, IL Sergeant Jim Smith (51), Grundy Center, IAĭeputy Sheriff Christopher Knight (30), Macon, GA Newsweek has collated the below chronological list of all deaths in police encounters that occurred between Floyd's death and the Chauvin verdict. Mostly, we were told, they died because they weren't prepared." But, it was quietly intimated, they were also failures. "The chief lesson learned at the academy was this: Anyone can kill you at any time," Brooks wrote in Tangled up in Blue, an excerpt of which Newsweek has published. Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University tenured law professor, wrote a book about her experience signing up as a reserve police officer with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department. Though they are a small portion of all deaths, police are trained aggressively about the threats to their health and lives in these encounters, and a sense of constant vulnerability instilled in new recruits. This total does not include those who died from natural causes, from COVID-19, from 9/11-related illnesses, or in accidents not involving others. Union Insists Video of New York Detective Being Attacked With Stick Is RealĪt least 71 law enforcement personnel have been killed in the line of duty this year, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page non-profit, underlining the deadly risk police also face in these encounters.NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos Killed on Duty in Hit-and-Run.Andrew Brown Family Autopsy Reveals 'Kill Shot to Back of the Head'.Between Floyd's death and Chauvin's conviction, 181 Black people died in police encounters. Twenty-eight percent of people killed by police in 2020 were Black, despite Black people making up 13 percent of the population. This racial disparity is amplified in America's biggest cities-in Chicago, for example, police kill 22 times more Black people than white people. The violence is borne disproportionately by the Black community, members of which are three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts.
In the 1,127 police killings recorded in 2020, only 16 cases-1.4 percent-resulted in a charge against the offending officer. What the Data Showsīetween Floyd's death and Chauvin's conviction, at least 979 people were killed in encounters with law enforcement personnel, according to data collected by the Mapping Police Violence website.Ĭhauvin's conviction is a statistical anomaly. She was armed with a knife during an altercation with other teenagers at her home and was attacking someone at the time. Then, as jurors were deliberating in the Chauvin trial, a police officer shot and killed 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.
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