There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
I went on sabbatical from teaching last year. It is one of those things that I, a kid of working class parents, could never have imagined when I was younger. My institution was enabling me to take time off of work to concentrate on my artistic development: to focus on my studio the way that I have been focusing on my students for the past 10 years. This time was hard-won, precious; I was looking forward to it opening up for me. I had a lot of ideas that had filled my sketchbooks over the years. Also, I had bookcases of texts I could not wait to devour. It had been so long since I had read anything for pleasure that I was so looking forward to curling up with all the tomes I had purchased that work had not allowed me to open. Also, to be perfectly honest, I was looking forward to getting some rest. I purchased supplies and cleared out my studio for new work. I was cleaned up my email and finished up school business. I got to a clutter-free place. I thought about what was possible.
Then Michael Brown happened.
While news channels kept showing his body lying in the street for hours, we found out about John H. Crawford, III.
And then Ezell Ford. And Dante Parker. And Kajieme Powell. And more. And many many more. Some captured on grainy videos replayed on television and computer screens.
In the studio, I could not stop thinking about this march of death. I painted almost every day and every day this parade of killing was on my television and radio and social media feed. Some of the dead became Twitter hashtags. Some did not, but they were no less dead. Why were some people more important than others? Did people think that some victims more worthy than others of not being shot to death, or tased to death, or run over, or beaten to death by the state?
I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn't think about anything other than death. I didn't read any books. I painted.
It's summer (July) and I'm at dinner with a friend. We are in a bistro with televisions all over the restaurant and bar area. The sound is turned down but the images light the entire place. The video of Officer Daniel Pantaleo choking Eric Garner to death plays over and over and over interrupted by silent talking heads. I wonder why are they playing this man's murder on a loop? People eat, drink, laugh, walk about. No one seems to notice that a man is being choked to death on television. Then I start to think that maybe they do see it and that it doesn't bother them. This is the first time I witness this, a black person being killed on television. It will not be the last time. Not by any measure.
Over my sabbatical, I saw black people shot to death on television over and over again. News casters and pundits would issue verbal warnings that the video they were about the show might upset "sensitive viewers." I tried to imagine a viewer that would not be upset about seeing someone like Walter Scott shot to death (or that his killer, Officer Michael Slager, planted evidence on his corpse). Or Tamir Rice shot to death. I wondered why they didn't tell the "insensitive viewers" to hook up their DVRs. When I am in the studio, the images fill my head. I jump when cars backfire.
People would ask me how my sabbatical was going. They would say, "I hope you are taking advantage of this time." They would tell me how lucky I was. They would ask, "What is going on in the studio?" I wondered if they watched the news at all. I wondered if they know about what was happening. I wondered how they felt about these images of black people being killed. I posted about this stuff on social media and it is ignored for the most part. Ferguson explodes. Social media does not believe in tears.
In August of 2015, two reporters are shot to death on live television. Alison Parker and Adam Ward are killed by Vester Lee Flanagan, II who uploaded video of the killing. Immediately, the television station, Facebook, and social media erupted with requests for people not to view of share the video. To maintain the dignity of the victims, people begged the public not to watch the video. It would be a terrible thing to give the killer satisfaction by watching his murder of the reporters.
I started to wonder why black people are allowed to be killed on television. Why we are allowed to be transformed from subjects to objects and left to lie in streets for hours? Why is it acceptable to show the end of a black life on television?
I start to make work about the historical impulse to turn violence against black people into part of our domestic structures. People continue to ask me what I am doing on sabbatical. I think of Neruda and I wish I knew Spanish. ("Come and see the blood in the streets....") I decide to make a work about all the people killed by police while I was on sabbatical. I dismiss the idea as too agitprop. I talk to my mentors. One of them tells me, "Make the work. Just don't trivialize." I work with a friend and learn how to make photographs. It is harder than I imagined. I finish this work, Family Pictures. I show it to a few people. I finish my sabbatical. I've read few books. I feel surrounded by ghosts.
I paint everything I think. I don't trivialize. I realize a new body of paintings. My studio is full of murderers, victims, liars, and accusers.
I return to work in September. In December, I am hassled and detained by the police. I write about the experience. Many people want me to come and talk to groups to "raise awareness." I decline. They seem to be unaware that I would not like to relive a traumatic experience in public. People want me to talk about #BlackLivesMatter. The college intervenes and offers to handle calls from the press for me. I am deeply grateful because this allows me to concentrate on my job and my students. CNN calls the college and wants to know if I will talk to Don Lemon. I tell the school that I will talk to anyone at CNN except Don Lemon. I get hate mail.
Lisa Tung, the Exhibitions Director asks me what work I want to put in the biennial faculty show. I decide to make the piece I thought was agitprop. I call Carmine, my neon fabricator. I want him to make a sign that mimics police light that spells out what is lost. I research police killings of unarmed civilians. I find no central list. I find no definitive list. I find no government statistics. I rely on activist sources. I rely on The Guardian. I make the piece. It is installed in the faculty show. It is a timeline. It's information: date, name, gender, city, state, method of killing. I title it A Partial List of Unarmed African-Americans who were Killed by Police or who Died in Police Custody During my Sabbatical from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2014-2015.
There are 262 names.
People tell me that they look at the wall and measure time. They lift up the people in their thoughts. Someone asks me if I am influenced by Maya Lin. I answer that we all are influenced by Maya Lin.
08/01/2014
Anthony Calloway
Male
27
Atlanta
GA
Gunshot
08/02/2014
Omar Abrego
Male
37
Los Angeles
CA
Beaten
08/03/2014
Jacorey Calhoun
Male
23
Oakland
CA
Gunshot
08/04/2014
Amir Brooks
Male
17
Washington
DC
Vehicle
08/05/2014
Jeremey Lake
Male
19
Tulsa
OK
Gunshot
08/05/2014
John H. Crawford III
Male
22
Beavercreek
OH
Gunshot
08/06/2014
Michael Laray Dozer
Male
26
Bakersfield
CA
Gunshot
08/09/2014
Michael Brown
Male
18
Ferguson
MO
Gunshot
08/11/2014
Torrez Harris
Male
52
Canton
MS
Gunshot
08/11/2014
Ezell Ford
Male
25
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
08/11/2014
Eddie Davis
Male
67
Dekalb
TX
Gunshot
08/12/2014
Dante Parker
Male
36
Victorville
CA
Tasered
08/13/2014
Corey Levert Tanner
Male
24
Bunnel
FL
Gunshot
08/14/2014
Michelle Cusseaux
Female
50
Phoenix
AZ
Gunshot
08/17/2014
Levon Leroy Love
Male
44
San Antonio
TX
Tasered
08/18/2014
Luther Lathron Walker
Male
38
Bellflower
CA
Gunshot
08/18/2014
Andre Maurice Jones
Male
37
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
08/19/2014
Darius Colegarrit
Male
21
Chicago
IL
Gunshot
08/19/2014
David Ellis
Male
29
Philadelphia
PA
Gunshot
08/19/2014
Kajieme Powell
Male
25
St. Louis
MO
Gunshot
08/20/2014
Arvel Douglas Williams
Male
30
Perry Hall
MD
Tasered
08/22/2014
Vernicia Woodard
Female
26
Hapeville
GA
Gunshot
08/23/2014
Anthony Lamar Brown
Male
39
West Palm Beach
FL
Gunshot
08/23/2014
Briant Paula
Male
26
Methuen
MA
Vehicle
08/24/2014
Rondre Hornbeak
Male
38
Ardmore
OK
Unknown
08/25/2014
Desean Pittman
Male
20
Chicago
IL
Gunshot
08/25/2014
Steven Lashone Douglas
Male
29
Dallas
TX
Gunshot
08/26/2014
Roshad McIntosh
Male
18
Chicago
IL
Gunshot
08/26/2014
Cortez Washington
Male
32
Omaha
NE
Gunshot
08/29/2014
Jeremy Lewis
Male
33
Orlando
FL
Gunshot
08/31/2014
Naim Owens
Male
22
Brooklyn
NY
Gunshot
08/31/2014
Eugene N. Turner III
Male
28
Kansas City
MO
Gunshot
09/02/2014
Kendrick Brown
Male
35
Cleveland
OH
Gunshot
09/08/2014
Alphonse Edward Perkins
Male
50
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
09/12/2014
Darrien Nathaniel Hunt
Male
22
Saratoga Springs
UT
Gunshot
09/12/2014
Elijah Jackson
Male
33
Knoxville
TN
Gunshot
09/15/2014
Kerry Lynn Brown
Male
26
Lacey
WA
Gunshot
09/15/2014
Michael Bonty
Male
23
Wasilla
AK
Gunshot
09/16/2014
Kashad Ashford
Male
23
Rutherford
NJ
Gunshot
09/18/2014
Charles Smith
Male
29
Savannah
GA
Gunshot
09/18/2014
Michael M. Willis Jr.
Male
42
Jennings
MO
Gunshot
09/23/2014
Cameron Tillman
Male
14
Houma
LA
Gunshot
09/24/2014
Nolan Anderson
Male
50
LaPlace
LA
Gunshot
09/27/2014
Eugene Williams
Male
38
Kansas City
MO
Tasered
09/28/2014
Oliver Jarrod Gregoire
Male
26
Baytown
TX
Tasered
09/30/2014
Javonta Darden
Male
20
Athens
GA
Gunshot
09/30/2014
Marlon S. Woodstock
Male
38
Sunrise
FL
Gunshot
10/01/2014
Tracy Ann Oglesby Wade
Female
39
Louisville
KY
Gunshot
10/04/2014
Lashano J. Gilbert
Male
31
New London
CT
Tasered
10/06/2014
Balantine Mbegbu
Male
65
Phoenix
AZ
Tasered
10/07/2014
O’Shaine Evans
Male
26
San Francisco
CA
Gunshot
10/07/2014
Aljarreau Cross
Male
29
North Las Vegas
NV
Gunshot
10/08/2014
VonDerrit D. Myers Jr.
Male
18
St. Louis
MO
Gunshot
10/09/2014
Ahaviel T. Whitfield
Male
39
Decatur
GA
Gunshot
10/10/2014
Elisha Paul Glass
Male
20
Columbus
OH
Gunshot
10/10/2014
Qusean Whitten
Male
18
Columbus
OH
Gunshot
10/11/2014
Derryl Drayton
Male
51
James Island
SC
Gunshot
10/13/2014
Macario Cisneros Garcia
Male
54
Pleasanton
TX
Tasered
10/14/2014
Rikessa La'Shae Lee
Female
21
Lorman
MS
Vehicle
10/17/2014
Adam Ardett Madison
Male
28
Warrior
AL
Gunshot
10/23/2014
Zale Thompson
Male
32
Jamaica
NY
Gunshot
10/24/2014
Keonna Redmond
Female
15
Jackson
MS
Vehicle
10/25/2014
Florence White
Female
51
Greensboro
NC
Vehicle
10/25/2014
Craig Hall
Male
29
Maywood
IL
Gunshot
10/27/2014
Christopher Mason McCray
Male
17
Fayetteville
NC
Vehicle
10/28/2014
Kaldrick Donald
Male
24
Gretna
FL
Gunshot
10/29/2014
Vincent Omear Thomas
Male
33
Florence
SC
Vehicle
11/01/2014
Johnn T. Wilson III
Male
22
Las Vegas
NV
Gunshot
11/01/2014
Michael D. McDougle
Male
29
Philadelphia
MS
Tasered, Beaten
11/02/2014
Charles Emmett Logan
Male
68
Maplewood
MN
Tasered
11/03/2014
Christopher Anderson
Male
27
Highland Park
IL
Gunshot
11/03/2014
Raphael Thomas
Male
29
Akron
OH
Gunshot
11/06/2014
Cinque D'Jahspora
Male
20
Jackson
TN
Gunshot
11/08/2014
Carlos Davenport
Male
50
Kansas City
KS
Gunshot
11/09/2014
Aura Rosser
Female
40
Ann Arbor
MI
Gunshot
11/13/2014
Tanisha N. Anderson
Female
37
Cleveland
OH
Tasered, Physical restraint
11/13/2014
Darnell Dayron Stafford
Male
31
Trenton
NJ
Gunshot
11/18/2014
Ronald Glennlewis Evans
Male
30
Bunnell
FL
Vehicle
11/19/2014
Keara Crowder
Female
29
Memphis
TN
Gunshot
11/20/2014
Akai Gurley
Male
28
Brooklyn
NY
Gunshot
11/22/2014
Tamir E. Rice
Male
12
Cleveland
OH
Gunshot
11/24/2014
O'Tavis Hall
Male
35
Winchester
CA
Gunshot
11/24/2014
Leonardo Marquette Little
Male
33
Jacksonville
FL
Gunshot
11/25/2014
Eric Ricks
Male
30
Mesquite
TX
Tasered
12/02/2014
Rumain Brisbon
Male
34
Phoenix
AZ
Gunshot
12/02/2014
William Mark Jones
Male
50
Red Springs
NC
Tasered
12/02/2014
Isaac Lee Ricks
Male
68
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
12/02/2014
Rumain Brishon
Male
34
Phoenix
AZ
Gunshot
12/04/2014
Keenan Ardoin
Male
24
Ville Platte
LA
Medical emergency, Drug overdose, pepper spray
12/07/2014
Jerry Demonte Nowlin
Male
39
Oklahoma City
OK
Gunshot
12/08/2014
Christopher Bernard Doss
Male
31
San Antonio
TX
Gunshot
12/09/2014
Calvin Peters
Male
49
Brooklyn
NY
Gunshot
12/10/2014
Travis Faison
Male
24
Sanford
NC
Gunshot
12/12/2014
Thurrell Jowers
Male
22
Poplar Bluff
MO
Gunshot
12/13/2014
Joseph Michael Rodriguez
Male
19
Topeka
KS
Gunshot
12/14/2014
Xavier McDonald
Male
16
Nashville
TN
Gunshot
12/14/2014
Michael D. Sulton
Male
23
Ridgeland
MS
Gunshot
12/15/2014
Dennis Grisgby Jr.
Male
35
Texarkana
TX
Gunshot
12/15/2014
Brandon Tate Brown
Male
26
Philadelphia
PA
Gunshot
12/19/2014
Terrell Beasley
Male
28
Saint Louis
MO
Gunshot
12/23/2014
Antonio Martin
Male
18
Berkeley
MO
Gunshot
12/26/2014
Quentin Smith
Male
23
Cocoa
FL
Gunshot
12/26/2014
Carlton Wayne "Chimmy" Smith
Male
20
Texas City
TX
Gunshot
12/27/2014
David Andre Scott
Male
28
Jacksonville
FL
Gunshot
12/29/2014
Kevin Davis
Male
44
Decatur
GA
Gunshot
12/30/2014
Jerame C. Reid
Male
36
Bridgeton
NJ
Gunshot
12/31/2014
Eric Tyrone Forbes
Male
28
Miami
FL
Gunshot
01/01/2015
Matthew Ojibade
Male
22
Savannah
GA
Unknown
01/06/2015
Brian Pickett
Male
26
Los Angeles
CA
Tasered
01/06/2015
Leslie Sapp III
Male
47
Knoxville
PA
Gunshot
01/07/2015
Andre Larone Murphy Sr.
Male
42
Norfolk
NE
Tasered
01/07/2015
Ronald "Maynard" Sneed
Male
31
Freeport
TX
Gunshot
01/07/2015
Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed
Male
41
Columbus
OH
Gunshot
01/07/2015
Omarr Jackson
Male
37
New Orleans
LA
Gunshot
01/08/2015
Artago Damon Howard
Male
36
Strong
AR
Gunshot
01/11/2015
Elarry Brumfield Jr.
Male
31
Pascagoula
MS
Fire
01/14/2015
Marcus Ryan Golden
Male
24
St. Paul
MN
Gunshot
01/15/2015
DeWayne Carr
Male
45
Scottsdale
AZ
Gunshot
01/15/2015
Donte Sowell
Male
27
Indianapolis
IN
Gunshot
01/15/2015
Kavonda Earl Payton
Male
39
Aurora
CO
Gunshot
01/15/2015
Mario A. Jordan
Male
34
Chesapeake
VA
Gunshot
01/16/2015
Rodney Walker
Male
23
Tulsa
OK
Gunshot
01/17/2015
Terence Walker
Male
21
Muskogee
OK
Gunshot
01/17/2015
Daniel Brumley
Male
27
Fort Worth
TX
Gunshot
01/21/2015
Isaac Holmes
Male
19
St. Louis
MO
Gunshot
01/24/2015
Darin Hutchins
Male
26
Baltimore
MD
Gunshot
01/27/2015
Jermonte Fletcher
Male
33
Columbus
OH
Gunshot
01/31/2015
Edward Donnell Bright Sr.
Male
56
Randallstown
MD
Gunshot
02/03/2015
Ledarius D. Williams
Male
23
St. Louis
MO
Gunshot
02/03/2015
Yuvette Henderson
Female
38
Oakland
CA
Gunshot
02/03/2015
Dewayne Deshawn Ward Jr.
Male
29
Antioch
CA
Gunshot
02/04/2015
Markell Atkins
Male
36
Memphis
TN
Gunshot
02/04/2015
Jimmy Ray Robinson Jr.
Male
51
Lorena
TX
Gunshot
02/06/2015
Herbert Hill
Male
26
Oklahoma City
OK
Gunshot
02/07/2015
James Howard Allen
Male
74
Gastonia
NC
Gunshot
02/09/2015
Desmond Luster Sr.
Male
45
Dallas
TX
Gunshot
02/10/2015
Anthony Bess
Male
48
Memphis
TN
Gunshot
02/11/2015
Phillip Watkins
Male
23
San Jose
CA
Gunshot
02/15/2015
Lavall Hall
Male
25
Miami Gardens
FL
Gunshot
02/18/2015
Janisha Fonville
Female
20
Charlotte
NC
Gunshot
02/20/2015
Douglas Harris
Male
77
Birmingham
AL
Gunshot
02/20/2015
Terry Price
Male
41
Tulsa
OK
Tasered
02/20/2015
Stanley Lamar Grant
Male
38
Birmingham
AL
Gunshot
02/20/2015
Alejandro Salazar
Male
Houston
TX
Gunshot
02/22/2015
Calvon A. Reid
Male
39
Coconut Creek
FL
Tasered
02/23/2015
A'Donte Washington
Male
18
Millbrook
AL
Gunshot
02/25/2015
Glenn C. Lewis
Male
37
Oklahoma City
OK
Gunshot
02/28/2015
Cornelius J. Parker
Male
28
Columbia
MO
Gunshot
02/28/2015
Thomas Allen Jr.
Male
34
St. Louis
MO
Gunshot
02/28/2015
Ian Sherrod
Male
40
Tarboro
NC
Gunshot
03/01/2015
Charly Leundeu "Africa" Keunang
Male
43
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
03/01/2015
Darrell "Hubbard" Gatewood
Male
47
Oklahoma City
OK
Tasered
03/03/2015
Fednel Rhinvil
Male
25
Salisbury
MD
Gunshot
03/05/2015
Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence
Male
45
Milwaukee
WI
Gunshot
03/06/2015
Tony Terrell Robinson
Male
19
Madison
WI
Gunshot
03/06/2015
Naeschylus Vinzant
Male
37
Aurora
CO
Gunshot
03/06/2015
Bernard Moore
Male
62
Atlanta
GA
Vehicle
03/06/2015
Andrew Anthony Williams
Male
48
Melrose
FL
Gunshot
03/08/2015
Monique Jenee Deckard
Female
43
Anaheim
CA
Gunshot
03/09/2015
Anthony Hill
Male
27
Chamblee
GA
Gunshot
03/09/2015
Cedrick Lamont Bishop
Male
30
Cocoa
FL
Gunshot
03/10/2015
Terrance Moxley
Male
29
Mansfield
OH
Tasered
03/10/2015
Theodore J. Johnson Sr.
Male
64
Cleveland
OH
Gunshot
03/11/2015
Terry Garnett Jr.
Male
37
Elkton
MD
Gunshot
03/17/2015
Askari Roberts
Male
35
Rome
GA
Tasered
03/19/2015
Kendre Alston
Male
16
Jacksonville
FL
Gunshot
03/19/2015
Brandon Jones
Male
18
Cleveland
OH
Gunshot
03/21/2015
Romeo Roddrick Staples
Male
20
Palatka
FL
Vehicle
03/22/2015
Denzel Brown
Male
21
Islip
NY
Gunshot
03/24/2015
Nicholas Taft Thomas
Male
25
Atlanta
GA
Gunshot
03/24/2015
Walter J. Brown III
Male
29
Portsmouth
VA
Gunshot
03/27/2015
Angelo West
Male
41
Roxbury
MA
Gunshot
03/27/2015
Jamalis Hall
Male
39
Fort Pierce
FL
Gunshot
03/28/2015
Meagan Hockaday
Female
26
Oxnard
CA
Gunshot
03/30/2015
Mya Ricky Shawatza Hall
Transgender
27
Fort George Meade
MD
Gunshot
03/30/2015
Dominick R. Wise
Male
30
Culpeper
VA
Taser
03/31/2015
Anthony Stokes
Male
17
Roswell
GA
Vehicle
03/31/2015
Phillip White
Male
32
Vineland
NJ
Beaten
03/31/2015
Tyrail Ezell
Male
31
Nashville
TN
Gunshot
04/01/2015
Robert Washington
Male
37
Hawthorne
CA
Gunshot
04/02/2015
Eric Courtney Harris
Male
44
Tulsa
OK
Gunshot
04/02/2015
Donald "Dontay" Shaw Ivy
Male
39
Albany
NY
Tasered, medical emergency, beaten
04/02/2015
Darrin A. Langford
Male
32
Rock Island
IL
Gunshot
04/04/2015
Walter Lamar Scott
Male
50
North Charleston
SC
Gunshot
04/04/2015
Justus Howell
Male
17
Zion
IL
Gunshot
04/04/2015
Paul Anthony Anderson
Male
31
Anaheim
CA
Gunshot
04/06/2015
Desmond Willis
Male
25
Harvey
LA
Gunshot
04/08/2015
Dexter Bethea
Male
42
Valdosta
GA
Gunshot
04/09/2015
Don Oneal Smith Jr.
Male
29
Monon
IN
Gunshot
04/12/2015
Freddie Gray
Male
25
Baltimore
MD
Medical emergency
04/12/2015
Mack Long
Male
36
Indianapolis
IN
Gunshot
04/14/2015
Colby Robinson
Male
26
Dallas
TX
Gunshot
04/15/2015
Frank Ernest Shephard III
Male
41
Houston
TX
Gunshot
04/15/2015
Tevin Barkley
Male
22
Miami
FL
Gunshot
04/16/2015
Darrell Lawrence Brown
Male
31
Hagerstown
MD
Tasered
04/17/2015
Jeffery Kemp
Male
18
Chicago
IL
Gunshot
04/17/2015
Thaddeus McCarroll
Male
23
Jennings
MO
Gunshot, first shot with a "less-lethal" round of some sort
04/19/2015
Norman Cooper
Male
33
San Antonio
TX
Tasered
04/21/2015
Daniel Wolfe
Male
35
Union
NJ
Gunshot
04/22/2015
William L. Chapman II
Male
18
Portsmouth
VA
Gunshot, Tasered
04/24/2015
Todd Jamal Dye
Male
20
Trinidad
CO
Gunshot
04/25/2015
David Felix
Male
24
New York
NY
Gunshot
04/27/2015
Terrance Kellom
Male
20
Detroit
MI
Gunshot
04/28/2015
Jared Johnson
Male
22
New Orleans
LA
Gunshot
04/29/2015
Jeffery O. Adkins
Male
53
Emporia
VA
Gunshot
04/30/2015
Alexia Christian
Female
25
Atlanta
GA
Gunshot
05/03/2015
Elton Simpson
Male
30
Garland
TX
Gunshot
05/04/2015
Ricardo Blackmon
Male
27
Jackson
MS
Vehicle
05/05/2015
Brendon “Dizzle” Glenn
Male
29
Venice
CA
Gunshot
05/06/2015
Jason Champion
Male
41
Secaucus
NJ
Vehicle
05/06/2015
Nuwnah Laroche
Female
34
Secaucus
NJ
Vehicle
05/07/2015
Nephi Arriguin
Male
21
Cerritos
CA
Gunshot
05/08/2015
Dedrick Marshall
Male
48
Harvey
LA
Gunshot
05/10/2015
Lionel Lorenzo Young
Male
34
Landover
MD
Gunshot
05/11/2015
Kelvin Antonie Goldston
Male
30
Fort Worth
TX
Gunshot
05/12/2015
D'Angelo Reyes Stallworth
Male
28
Jacksonville
FL
Gunshot
05/19/2015
Anthony Quinn Gomez Jr.
Male
29
Lancaster
PA
Gunshot
05/20/2015
Marcus D. Wheeler
Male
26
Omaha
NE
Gunshot
05/20/2015
Chrislon Talbott
Male
38
Owensboro
KY
Gunshot
05/20/2015
Markus Clark
Male
26
Fort Lauderdale
FL
Medical Emergency
05/21/2015
Javoris Reshaud Washington
Male
29
Fort Lauderdale
FL
Gunshot
05/21/2015
Jerome Thomas Caldwell
Male
32
Charleston
SC
Gunshot
05/23/2015
Caso Jackson
Male
25
Detroit
MI
Gunshot
05/25/2015
Anthony Dewayne Briggs
Male
36
Huntsville
AL
Gunshot
05/26/2015
Dalton Branch
Male
51
New York
NY
Gunshot
05/28/2015
Kenneth Dothard
Male
40
Carrollton
GA
Gunshot
05/29/2015
Kevin Allen
Male
36
Lyndhurst
NJ
Gunshot
05/31/2015
Richard Gregory Davis
Male
50
Rochester
NY
Taser
06/02/2015
Usaama Rahim
Male
26
Boston
MA
Gunshot
06/03/2015
Sherman Byrd Jr.
Male
24
Chester
PA
Vehicle
06/04/2015
Andrew Ellerbe
Male
33
Philadelphia
PA
Gunshot
06/06/2015
Demouria Hogg
Male
30
Oakland
CA
Gunshot
06/08/2015
Ross Anthony
Male
25
Dallas
TX
Tasered
06/09/2015
Quandavier Hicks
Male
22
Cincinnati
OH
Gunshot
06/10/2015
Isiah Hampton
Male
19
New York
NY
Gunshot
06/11/2015
Fritz Severe
Male
46
Miami
FL
Gunshot
06/15/2015
Kris Jackson
Male
22
South Lake Tahoe
CA
Gunshot
06/16/2015
Jermaine Benjamin
Male
41
Vero Beach
FL
Medical emergency
06/19/2015
Trepierre Hummons
Male
21
Cincinnati
OH
Gunshot
06/20/2015
Kevin Bajoie
Male
31
Baton Rouge
LA
Tasered
06/20/2015
Alfontish Cockerham
Male
23
Chicago
IL
Gunshot
06/22/2015
Tyrone Dale Harris Jr.
Male
20
Pittsburgh
PA
Gunshot
06/24/2015
Damien Alexander Harrell
Male
26
Yorktown
VA
Gunshot
06/25/2015
Spencer McCain
Male
41
Owings Mills
MD
Gunshot
07/02/2015
Victo Larosa III
Male
23
Jacksonville
FL
Gunshot
07/04/2015
Kawanza Jamal Beaty
Male
23
Newport News
VA
Gunshot
07/04/2015
Robert Elando Malone
Male
42
Oklahoma City
OK
Gunshot
07/04/2015
Maximo Rabasa
Male
52
Miami
FL
Tasered
07/06/2015
Jason Hendley
Male
29
Los Angeles
CA
Gunshot
07/07/2015
Marcellus Jamarcus Burley
Male
18
Missouri City
TX
Gunshot
07/08/2015
Jonathan Sanders
Male
39
Stonewall
MS
Asphyxiated
07/10/2015
Anthony Dewayne Ware
Male
35
Tuscaloosa
AL
Medical emergency
07/10/2015
Freddie Lee Blue
Male
20
Covington
GA
Gunshot
07/11/2015
George Mann
Male
35
Stone Mountain
GA
Tasered
07/13/2015
Sandra Bland
Female
28
Hempstead
TX
Asphyxiated, ruled suicide
07/19/2015
Samuel DuBose
Male
43
Cincinnati
OH
Gunshot
08/06/2015
Troy Robinson
Male
33
Decatur
GA
Tasered
08/07/2015
Christian Taylor
Male
19
Arlington
TX
Gunshot
08/14/2015
Asshams Pharoah Manley
Male
30
Spauldings
MD
Gunshot
08/28/2015
Felix Kumi
Male
61
Mt. Vernon
NY
Gunshot
08/31/2015
John Carney III
Male
48
Cincinnati
OH
Tasered
Someone will say their names and they will be alive a little longer.