This is a list of African Americans reported killed while unarmed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States. Events are listed whether they took place in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description.
Before 2000
2000–2009
2010–2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
See also
- Rodney King: An unarmed African-American man who was famously beaten by four LAPD police officers.
- List of police violence incidents during George Floyd protests
- I can't breathe
- Police brutality in the United States
- Police use of deadly force in the United States
- Death squad
- Rankin County torture incident
- List of lynching victims in the United States
- Slave patrol
- 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers: A mass shooting that was motived by the suspect's anger over the shootings of unarmed black people by police.
- 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers: A mass shooting that was motived by the shootings of unarmed black people by police.
- 2014 killings of NYPD officers: a shooting that was motived by the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown
- Mark Essex: A man whose killing spree was partially motivated by the police shooting deaths of Leonard Brown and Denver Smith.
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