Tyesha Miller

She was gunned down by Riverside, California officers in December of 1999. She was in her car, unresponsive (some reports say she was in a diabetic coma) and four officers killed her with 23 bullets.

Democracy Now article

Amadou Diallo

Amadou Diallo was killed by the NYPD in 1999. The cops said they thought he was reaching for a gun, but he was reaching for his wallet!

Democracy Now! article
Picked this article from the many available at www.democracynow.org because it provides an overview of what happened at the beginning of the article.

Sean Bell

Sean Bell and two of his friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were victims of a police shooting the morning of Sean Bell's wedding. The police shoot 50 bullets at the car, none of the men in the car were armed. You can read more details and other's speculations about what went down. Here are a few links to related articles.

Democracy Now! Exclusive (Must read and see)

Newsweek article

Counterpunch.org article

Rev. Al Sharpton & Amadou Diallo's Mother Condemn NYPD Killing of Groom Sean Bell Hours Before His Wedding

New Blog!

I started this blog after being bombarded by news of police brutality this morning. I was rather upset about the shooting of Sean Bell over the weekend. Then, I hear about an 88-year old woman in Atlanta being shot and killed while police were executing a "no-knock" warrant. After this, I was reading my friend Adrienne's blog and a string of clicking on links to other pages leads me to a video of a UCLA student being tasered by the 'rent-a-cops' at the UCLA library. This new knowledge and prior knowledge of similiar events sparked my desire to start this blog to raise awareness of these terrible incidents of police brutality and excessive force.