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Note: Boldface page numbers indicate Blanks, Jonathan, 23
illustrations. body cams, 36, 36–39, 58
Brown, Michael
ABC News, 60 Black Lives Matter protests and, 38
ACLU v. Alvarez (2012), 35 murder of
Alexander, Michelle, 23 number of times shot, 5
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), use of body cams after, 37
49, 63 video of, 6
Amnesty International, 26 public opinion about killing of, as
Arbery, Ahmaud, 41 policing problem, 64
Asian Americans, opinion about Bryan, William “Roddie,” 41
defunding police, 55 Bullock, Scott, 52
Atlanta, Georgia, 37 Bureau of Justice Statistics, 24
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24
Baker, Akeem, 41 Butler, Paul, 18
Balch Springs, Texas, 38–39
Bearing Witness While Black: African Camden, New Jersey, 58–63, 63
Americans, Smartphones and Castile, Philando, 5, 6
the New Protest #Journalism Cato Institute, 26
(Richardson), 40–41 Chauvin, Derek, 4–5, 42–43, 44
Bell, Wesley, 38 Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Butler),
Biden, Joe, 29, 29–30 18
Black Americans chokeholds, 18
in Camden, New Jersey, 58 Christie, Chris, 60
effect of militarized police in civil lawsuits
communities of, 21, 25–26 described, 45
evidence of police use of force, fi led by family of Floyd, 45–46
32–33, 33 fi led by family of Garner, 46
incarceration rates for low-level drug fi led by family of Gray, 46
dealing, 23 fi led by family of Rice, 46
opinion about defunding police, 55, payment of settlements, 46
60 qualifi ed immunity and, 46–47
opinion about fairness of police Taylor murder and, 46, 47, 51
treatment of, 26, 64 conducted energy devices, 11
percentage of US population, 23 Copwatch, 33
percentage of US prison population, Coverson, Ernest, 27
23–24 crime
use of body cams and, 39 in Camden, New Jersey, 63
Black Lives Matter protests, 26–29, effect of SWAT teams on, 25
27, 38 poverty and, 24
Blake, Jacob, 31–32 criminal court cases

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