Friday, April 3, 2015

The chase to count the killings that the feds don't

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Brian Burghart figured that he was either going crazy or he was terrible at Google.


It was May 2012, and he'd just driven by a row of police cars parked on the side of a road in Reno, Nevada, where he works as a publisher of a weekly newspaper. Turns out police had killed the driver of a stolen car


When Burghart got home, he went online and read a few news stories about the shooting and was surprised that none of them mentioned how often police kill people in Reno or the surrounding county



A few months later, police shot and killed a teenager named Gil Collar at the University of South Alabama. Collar had been walking around campus grounds naked and acting erratically when a campus officer shot him in the chest Read more...


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