Police officers watch the neighborhood as some buildings are set on fire after the announcement of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.
To put how many people U.S. police kill in perspective, it helpful to compare the death toll of Americans, to those killed by law enforcement in other countries.
In the month of March alone, a total of 111 people were killed by police in the United States. Compare that to the grand total of the entire United Kingdom, since 1900: only 52 people have been killed by police in the past 115 years.
Granted, the U.K. is much smaller than the United States, but that is still an astronomically lower death rate for civilians in the U.K. than in the U.S.
U.S. cops kill twice as many people ever single month than the U.K. cops have since 1900.
In the U.S., March’s total is 36 more citizens killed than the previous month.
Some of these cases gained national attention, such as the fatal shootings of Tony Robinson; Madison, Wisconsin and Charly Keundeu Keunang (aka Africa); Los Angeles, California. But others flew under the radar for many media outlets, like the police beating death of unarmed Phillip White in New Jersey; or the shooting of Megan Hockaday; or Nicholas Thomas, the unarmed man who was at his place of employment at Goodyear Tires in Atlanta.
The problem is clear, but the solution is not. When the mainstream media almost never reports on these incidences unless and until alternative media helps the stories of them go viral, it is clear that a lot of the work is up to all of us. The mainstream, corporate media is in cahoots with the departments who are gunning down these citizens by the dozens, if not hundreds every month. If the word is going to get out about these incidences it is up to us to SPREAD THE WORD!