American Media is being captivated once again with another beheading of another American in the Middle East by Islamic extremists. It seems there is little if any concern with the Shooting and Killing of Americans by American Law Enforcement. Since November 1, Law Enforcement has shot and killed 24 Americans.
According to the Tuskegee Institute figures, between the years 1882 and 1951, 4,730 people were lynched in the United States: 3,437 Negro and 1,293 white.3 The largest number of lynchings occurred in 1892. Of the 230 persons lynched that year, 161 were Negroes and sixty-nine whites.
So how many Police Shootings do we have in the USA? Well, No One Knows. Between 2003 and 2009 there 4,913 Police shootings in the USA and 61% were classified as homicide. Since August 9, 2014, the day that Michael Brown was shot 83 more people were shot - just during the last 22 days of August - 2014.
Washington Post
Officials with the Justice Department keep no comprehensive database or record of police shootings, instead allowing the nation’s more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies to self-report officer-involved shootings as part of the FBI’s annual data on “justifiable homicides” by law enforcement.
Meanwhile, we are waiting for the Grand Jury in St. Louis County, Missouri to return their No-Bill for Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown. Does anybody really expect the Grand Jury to indict a police officer for executing an unarmed black teenager who might have shoplifted a pack of cigars?
1. November 14, 2014, in Claymont, Delaware, Delaware, A robbery suspect was shot and killed by Delaware State Police. The suspect is identified as 41-year-old William 'Billy' McNulty.
2. November 13, 2014 in Trenton, New Jersey, Darnell Stafford was fatally shot by police after allegedly opening fire on a police cruiser and engaging in a gunfight with officers.
3. November 12, 2014, in Concord, California, An unidentified carjacking suspect was shot and killed by a Concord police officer in the Willows Shopping Center parking lot after reportedly slamming his vehicle into a police car, prompting an officer to fire several times at the suspect.
4. November 11, 2014, in Jacksonville, Alabama, The State Bureau of Investigations is looking into a deadly, officer-involved shooting out of Calhoun County.
5. November 11, 2014, in Menlo Park, California, Jerry Matheny, a suspected burglar with a gun was shot and killed by three police officers in a neighborhood after they chased him on foot. According to police, Matheny brandished a firearm and fired at a shot at Sgt. Jaime Romero, missing him. An officer reportedly hurt his knee during the foot chase.
6. November 10, 2014, in Mitchell, S.D., Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a statement Monday night saying 52-year-old Joy Ann Sherman had died in a Sioux Falls hospital. She was taken there after being shot by Patrol Sgt. David Beintema at a motel on Saturday evening.
7. November 9, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Aura Rosser was shot by police twice after she confronted them with a knife. It was the first fatal officer-involved shooting in Ann Arbor in nearly 40 years.
8. November 9, 2011, in Los Angeles, California The shooting death of Josue Fuentes in the Van Nuys neighborhood was one of three officer-involved shootings over the weekend.
9. November 9, 2011 in Van Nuys, California Christopher O'Neill wielding a knife was shot and killed by two Lake County sheriff's deputies after they arrived at a home responding to a domestic disturbance. According to the county district attorney, the man charged at the deputies with a knife.
10. November 9, 2014 in Denver, Colorado, The driver, later identified as 31-year-old Ian Santamaria, was pronounced dead on the Tamarac Parkway off-ramp from Interstate 225, the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner said. Officers involved in the shootout said that the man may have killed himself.
11. November 9, 2011,in Irving, Texas, An unidentified man in a car was shot by two police officers after he tried to maneuver around a SWAT vehicle, hitting it and another vehicle, in the parking lot of a hotel. The man had a warrant for his arrest on several felony charges.
12.November 9, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona, Daniel Zamora, 48, told operators he was feeling sick when he called 911 before 6 a.m. Sunday, but neighbors soon began calling police saying someone was acting erratically in the area of 39th and Glendale avenues, prompting police to upgrade the call from a welfare check, police said. Zamora died while in custody.
13. November 8, 2014 in Manchester, New Jersey, Keith Atkinson Jr., 23, was struck around 11:15 p.m. while he was walking in the middle of the roadway, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Al Della Fave said
14. November 8, 2014, in Westland, Michigan, A Troy Hart, 27-year-old man is dead after an altercation with police in Westland Saturday night.
15. November 8, 2014, in Hemet, California, An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent allegedly shot and killed 27-year-old Adam Thomas after an argument between the two in their neighborhood at 12:45 a.m. The agent, 40-year-old John Demery, was arrested and booked on suspicion of homicide.
16. November 8, 2014, in Kansas City, Kansas, Devastated family members had their first look at the scene of an officer-involved shooting that left Carlos Davenport, a 51-year-old man dead after police said he charged an officer with a sword.
17. November 5, 2014 in Reno, Nevada, The suspect involved in this Officer-Involved Shooting (OIS) has been identified as 33-year-old Robert William Hampton III.
18. November 4, 2014 in Kitts Hill, Ohio, The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office released the name of a man who was killed by deputies during a drug raid has been released, Ernest McKnight (64).
19. November 3, 2014, in Akron Ohio, The family of 29-year-old Raupheal Thomas confirms he was shot and killed Monday evening.
20. November 3, 2014, in Highland Park, Illinois, Christopher Anderson, 27, was shot Monday by Highland Park police officers after he refused to put the gun down, authorities said.
21. Novewmber 2, 2014,in Indio, California, Authorities have released the identity of the man, Jesus Luviano, killed in an officer-involved shooting Sunday night in Indio.
22. November 1, 2014 in West Las Vegas, Nevada, The rifle-wielding man who was shot and killed by a Nevada Highway Patrol officer early Saturday morning was identified Sunday by the Clark County coroner’s office as John Wilson(22).
23. November 1, 2014, in Long Beach, California, The man shot and killed by a Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officer on November 1 has been identified by the coroner’s office as 62-year-old Richard Joseph Barrett.
24. November 2, 2014, in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, Police said the suspect who fled from the vehicle, William A. Collins, a 28-year-old man from El Dorado Springs, was pronounced dead at the scene by Cedar County Coroner Bill Neale.