Florida

Context | Current Aggressions

29 MAY 2022 Supporters of 43-year-old Kevin Desir, Who Died After Being Held In Jail Restraint Chair Allege Cover-up; Unable to Discuss Incident Footage Thanks to Gag Order | https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/29/we-want-transparency-supporters-of-man-who-died-after-being-held-in-jail-restraint-chair-allege-cover-up-unable-to-discuss-incident-footage-thanks-to-gag-order/

17 MAY 2022 Black Lives Matter group calls for charges, sheriff’s resignation for killing 20-year-old Jayden Baez |  https://www.wesh.com/article/black-lives-matter-deadly-target-shooting/40024468

23 FEB 2022 Family of wedding guest, 39-year-old Daniel Knight, killed by Winter Park police refute official account, demand charges | https://www.wesh.com/article/black-lives-matter-deadly-target-shooting/40024468


2021


29 DEC 2021 FL Police kill Stanley “SJ” Davis III, 13 | https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-seeks-answers-13-year-florida-boy-dies/story?id=81985534

11 NOV 2021 He Got a Life Sentence When He Was 22 — For Robbery | https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/11/11/he-got-a-life-sentence-when-he-was-22-for-robbery

27 OCT 2021 U.S. Marshals draw guns on Bradenton mother after knocking on wrong apartment | https://www.wesh.com/article/us-marshals-draw-guns-on-bradenton-mother-after-knocking-on-wrong-apartment/38080269#

22 OCT 2021 The ‘Bad Cop’ Who Rules Miami; How Bad Cops Stay in Power | https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/22/javier-ortiz-florida-police-misconduct-protections-516231

20 OCT 2021 Footage Shows Florida Cops Tasing Autistic Man With ‘Mental Capacity of a 4-Year-Old’ | https://www.thedailybeast.com/footage-shows-eustis-florida-cops-tasing-louis-grahai-autistic-man-with-mental-capacity-of-a-4-year-old?ref=scroll

19 OCT 2021 Eustis police tased 20-year-old with severe autism multiple times, bodycam footage | https://www.wesh.com/article/eustis-police-tased-20-year-old-with-severe-autism-multiple-times-bodycam-footage-shows/38005382#

18 OCT 2021 Slain 19-year-old Miya Marcano’s family questions actions of sheriff’s office | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/slain-womans-family-questions-actions-sheriffs-office-80640365

3 AUG 2021 Five US police officers charged over violent arrests of Black men | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3/five-police-officers-charged-over-violent-arrests-of-black-men

23 JUNE 2021 Moment a cop tasers a biracial teen waiting for his girlfriend to answer the backdoor after following him onto the property because ‘he thought he looked suspicious’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9716865/Moment-cop-tasers-biracial-teenager-outside-girlfriends-home-Florida.html

17 SEP 2020 Black in Polk: Being Black in Polk County means consistent struggle with racism | https://www.theledger.com/in-depth/news/special-reports/2020/09/15/black-in-polk-being-black-polk-county-consistent-struggle-racism/3337691001/

Legislation

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