From The Louisiana Weekly Newspaper
17th September 2012
Using government documents and direct investigations a group has issued a call to action, citing that in the first six (6) months of 2012 a Black person was killed by a police officer, security guard or vigilante.
“The Report on Black People Executed without Trial by Police, Security Guards and Self-Appointed Law Enforcers January 1 – June 30, 2012”, was produced by Arlene Eisen and Kali Akuno for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). Special assistance was given by Ajamu Baraka. It is available online at
http://mxgm.org/report-on-the-extrajudicia... Some of the disturbing statistics gathered in the report on the 120 extrajudicial killings include:
• 55 (or 46%) had no weapon at all at the time they were executed.
• 43 (or 36%) were alleged by police to have weapons (including a cane, toy gun and bb gun) but this allegation is disputed by witnesses or later investigation.
• 22 (or 18%) were likely armed.
• In the first half of 2012, police alleged that 42 of the people they executed attempted to run away from them.
• 24 of the people who were killed allegedly pointed guns at officers and/or attempted to crash into them. Reports often do not mention if the officers were wearing uniforms or if the “suspects had any way of knowing their assailants were not civilians.
• 48 (40% of 120) of police accounts explicitly cite “suspicious behavior or appearance” or traffic violations as the reason for their attempt to detain the person who they eventually killed.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Monday, September 17th 2012 at 9:45PM
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