Police shootings

From 2015 to 2022

Jpharoahdoss
3 min readDec 31, 2022

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In 2014, Michael Brown, a black teenager, was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. This incident led to harsh criticism of police officer training and tactics.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, a group with chapters in many cities that works to stop police brutality, put out a study the year before Michael Brown was killed that said, “Police officers…

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Jpharoahdoss

J. Pharoah Doss is a columnist for the New Pittsburgh Courier.