The unarmed Latinos killed by police in 2015

*This year to date, the count is 16 unarmed Latinos kiilled by police. The count is a raw number, it doesn’t explain circumstances. Still, I think Al Día News is doing needed reporting. VL


aldiaBy Max Marin, Al Día News

In 2015 to date, there have been at least 714 people killed by police in the United States. At least 105 of the victims were identified as Latino. At least 16 of those Latinos were unarmed. Most of these shootings occurred in the states of Texas and California. In at least 19 of the shootings, there was evidence of mental illness among the Latinos.

Below is our blogroll of officer-involved shootings in which the victims were unarmed Latinos. Each case is different. Some have made national news, but most have not. Overall, reaction to the shootings of Latinos by police in the U.S. has been muted. Nowhere is this more evidenced than in the fatal police shootings of three unarmed Mexican nationals within days of each other in February. One of the shootings was caught on camera and still failed to bring much national scrutiny.

To collect this data, AL DÍA consulted the Washington Posts’s wealth of reportage on officer-involved shootings across the country, as well as the watchdog site Killed By Police. Local news reports for each shooting were cross-referenced for accuracy, as were available online documents from individual police precincts and, in certain cases, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Any officer-involved shooting of an unarmed Latino that occurs in Philadelphia will rely on original reportage.

This post will be updated weekly with new info.

Click HERE to read the blogroll.


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