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Other people said Brown raised his hands

in surrender. Some thought they heard

Brown say, “Don’t shoot.” During the

confrontation, Wilson shot Brown six times.

Brown died on the street.

Tensions between black communities

and largely white police forces were already

MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE

After Brown’s death, data scientist Samuel

Sinyangwe helped create the website
Mapping Police Violence. The website gathers
information from various sources, such as

social media, police reports, and obituaries. The

site uses the information to produce data about
police killings across the country. Sinyangwe
explained that this website was meant to show

Americans there was a national crisis.

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