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Betty Jones

Betty Jones was a 55 year-old cis Black woman who was mistakenly shot and killed by Chicago police as she answered the door of her home in the early morning of December 26, 2015. Police responded to a call of domestic disturbance. Quintonio LeGrier, her upstairs neighbor, had been swinging a bat. LeGrier's father had asked Jones to look out for the police and let them in when they arrived.

Quintonio LeGrier

Quintonio LeGrier was a 19 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed by Chicago police on December 26, 2015. Police responded to a call that a male was wielding a baseball bat and threatening his father at his family's West Side home. LeGrier had been going through a mental health crisis. Upon arrival, police officer Robert Rialmo fatally shot and killed LeGrier's neghbor, 55 year-old Betty Jones. LeGrier was then shot six times by police as he motioned towards Jones.

Cedrick Chatman

Cedrick Chatman was a 17 year-old cis Black male who was gunned down by Chicago police on January 7, 2013. Video of the killing was kept from the public by the City of Chicago for three years. After the Chatman family sued the city and officers Kevin Fry and Lou Toth, a federal judge ordered the release of the video footage and the City dropped its case against releasing the footage on January 13, 2016. The footage shows Chatman running out of an allegedly stolen car and being chased by Fry and Toth. Kevin Fry then stops in the middle of the street and opens fire as Chatman disappears from camera view. Moments later, Chatman is seen face down and unresponsive as officer Fry places his foot on top of Chatman's body.

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Papi Edwards

Papi Edwards was a trans Black woman who was who was shot and killed on January 9, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. Henry Richard Gleaves was charged with her murder. She has been consistently misgendered by news media outlets.  The police report also misgendered Edwards and police officers refused to identify the murder as a hate crime.  Footage of the murder clearly shows that Edwards identified as a trans woman and her friends have also confirmed that Edwards identified as a woman.  

Laquan McDonald

Laquan McDonald was a  17 year-old cis Black male who was shot sixteen times by a Chicago police officer on October 20th, 2014. Dash-cam footage shows officer Jason Van Dyke repeatedly shooting MacDonald as he is walking away from the police vehicle. A judge ordered the City to release the footage before November 25, 2015. Release of the footage has caused a serge of Black Lives Matter protests. Van Dyke has since been charged with first degree murder.   

Jamar Clark ghost portrait by Sophia Terazawa

Jamar Clarke

Jamar Clarke was a  24 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed by police officers on November 15, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Police and ambulance arrived on the scene in response to a domestic dispute between Clarke and his girlfriend. Clarke struggled with officers to reach the ambulance where his girlfriend was being treated. Clarke was then handcuffed and slammed to the ground. A police officer then shot Clarke in the head execution style. None of the officers were wearing body cameras and the police report denies that Clarke was handcuffed. Multiple witnesses say that Clarke was handcuffed.    

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December 2015

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ZELLA ZIONA

Zella Ziona was a 21 year-old trans Black woman who was killed on October 15th in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She was approached by four or five teenagers in an alley way. After a dispute with 20 year old Rico Hector Leblond, Ziona was shot in the head. Leblond has been charged with first degree murder. She is at least the twenty-first trans woman killed in the United States this year.

COREY JONES

Corey Jones was a 31 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer on October 18th in Palms Beach Gardens, Florida. Jones was on his way home when car troubles forced him to pull over on the road side of interstate 95. Officer Nouman Raja, an on-duty plainclothes officer in an unmarked car pulled up to investigate, believing that Jones' car was abandoned. Raja confronted Jones believing he had a gun and opened fire.

AMONDEREZ GREEN

Amonderez Green was a 18 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed during a confrontation with police on October 28th in Normandy, Missouri, only two miles away from Ferguson. Ferguson police officers have admitted to being on the scene and eyewitnesses say that Ferguson police officers shot Green in the face. The statement released by the St. Louis County Police Department claims that Green was suicidal, shot at police multiple times with a silver revolver, and then shot himself in the face. However, a video released on twitter shows a woman out of frame screaming "don't shoot my baby" and a male voice shouting "don't kill me, oh god."

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KIESHA JENKINS

Kiesha Jenkins was a 22 year-old trans Black woman who was brutally beaten and murdered in North Philadelphia on October 6th. Minutes after getting out of a parked car, she was attacked by five to six males and then shot in the back. She is at least the twentieth trans woman killed in the United States this year.

JASMINE COLLINS

Jasmine Collins was a 32 year-old trans Black woman who was killed in June in Kansas City, Missouri. She was misgendered by police and remained unidentified until late August, after cisgendered woman Tia Townsel had been charged with her murder. She is at least the nineteenth trans woman killed in the United States this year.

JEREMY MCDOLE

Jeremy McDole was a disabled 28 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed by a four-officer firing squad on September 23rd, as he sat in his wheelchair. Officers responded to a 911 call that McDole had shot himself. Video footage shows officers approaching him and demanding that he put his hands up, but no weapon is visible. Officers fired 10 rounds before McDole fell out of his wheelchair.

KEITH MCLEOD

Keith McLeod was a 19 year-old cis Black male who was shot and killed September 23rd by a police officer after attempting to get cough medicine with a fake prescription. He was chased through a pharmacy parking lot and shot three times after he allegedly made a hand gesture that "look like a gun."

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