From FAIR: WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count
Concerned that official records undercount the number of people shot and killed by police in the United States every year, the Washington Post (12/26/15) attempted to compile a list of every fatal police shooting in 2015. The paper found nearly a thousand such casesmore than twice as many as the FBI reports in a typical year.
The Posts projectwhich corroborates a similar tally conducted by the British Guardian (6/9/15)is a journalistic accomplishment, as well as an achievement of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has worked to call attention to police violence in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
But its hard for me to escape the feeling that the Post storyby Kimberly Kindy and Marc Fisherwas framed by the paper to minimize the projects remarkable findings.
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