1. Black Lives Matter(?)
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2. Rodney King Verdict LA Riots worksheet
What is police militarization? What does it look like?
Is there a need for police to have military equipment?
What percentage of police officers are prior service military?
What percentage of military veterans have seen combat?
What percentage of military veterans are estimated to suffer from PTSD?

3. Black Lives Matter BlackLivesMatter.com
Who else is included in the movement?
What are the main principles/beliefs?
Are non-blacks part of the movement?
How would you gauge the popularity/success of the movement?
What are your parameters?

4. Some Examples Keith Lamar Scott Charles Kinsey Terrence Crutcher
Michael Brown
Eric Garner
Jeremy Mardis
Louis Becker
Paterson Brown
Keith McLeod
Samuel Debose
Philando Castile
Alton Sterling
Freddie Gray
Laquan McDonald
Tamir Rice
Sandra Bland
Jamar Clark
Ramarley Graham
Manuel Loggins, Jr.
Amadou Diallo
Latanya Haggerty

5. Questions What were the circumstances? Was the subject armed?
What evidence was presented?
Were their charges brought against the police officers?
If so, were they found guilty?
How many unarmed people were killed in 2014? 2015? 2016 so far?
How many of them were white? How many of them were black?
What percent of the population is black?

6. Statistics
Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. (See which police departments were responsible for these deaths)
Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting
37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population
Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015
Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, will be sentenced May 31.

7. Respond Is there a legitimate problem in your opinion?
List three things that have been done in local police forces to help.
What do you think needs to be done? Be specific?
Is there an underlying race issue in America?
Is rioting ever justified?
What do you think is the best way to affect change in this situation?