GRAPHIC: Two years ago police in Saginaw, MI killed a 49-year-old homeless man with mental illness named Milton Hall. The United States Department of Justice announced earlier this week that it has failed to find sufficient evidence of willful misconduct. Now a new video has been release capturing six officers recklessly firing 46 shots at Hall. newsweek/two-years-later-no-charges-after-police-kill-homeless-man-barrage-46-shots-280609 As more and more of these outrageous incidences of police killings, brutality and misconduct surface its clear the the DOJ must intervene to interrupt a nationwide crisis of violent policing. The sad reality is many local police departments arent required to report police killings to the FBI, meaning the scale, circumstances, and disciplinary outcome of police violence remains undetermined. Check out the powerful words from #MiltonHalls mother and follow Killed By Cops on Twitter to remember Milton, #MikeBrown, #VonderritMyers, #EricGarner, #RamarleyGraham and too many others killed by law enforcement. And help us demand critical federal reforms to policing, including a national publicly-accesible database, with key privacy protections. We have a right to know how many of our people have been #KilledByCops. FOLLOW: act.colorofchange.org/sign/killedbycops_stw/ ACT: act.colorofchange.org/sign/federalpolicingreforms/ via ColorOfChange.org
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:17:03 +0000
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