Race and Justice-Black Lives Matter
Terence Crutcher (1976-2016)
On September 16, 2016, 43-year-old Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher. The circumstances of the shooting would...
Alonzo Ashley (1982-2011)
Twenty-nine-year-old Alonzo Ashley was killed during a struggle with police officers at the Denver Zoo in Colorado. The Coroner ruled his death a...
Reynaldo Cuevas (1992-2012)
Twenty-year-old Reynaldo Cuevas’s life was cut short by an NYPD officer as he fled an armed robbery in his place of business....
Jordan Russell Davis (1995-2012)
In 2012, Jordan Russell Davis, a seventeen-year-old high school student in Jacksonville, Florida, was shot and killed by Michael David Dunn,...
Rekia Boyd (1989-2012)
The shooting of Rekia Boyd, a twenty-two-year-old African-American woman, by Dante Servin, a white off-duty Chicago, Illinois police detective, contributed to the Black...
The Charleston Church Massacre (2015)
The Charleston Church Massacre took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. Dylann...
Philando Divall Castile (1983-2016)
Philando Divall Castile, killed in a controversial police shooting in 2016, was born on July 16, 1983, in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated...
Walter Lamar Scott (1965-2015)
The shooting death of Walter Lamar Scott, an unarmed Black man, by Michael Thomas Slager, a white police officer, during...
Sean Elijah Bell (1983-2006)
Twenty-three-year-old Sean Elijah Bell, the victim of a violent police shooting in 2006, was born on May 18, 1983, to...
