lighting themselves in fighting positions within 15 miles of the center of the capitol age siege continue around that port stiff mariupol hundreds of thousands remain trapped without water food, electricity for days now. here in a funeral for three soldier lost on friday ukrainian now says 1300 have been kill bid the russians. just some of the sights and sowngsdz of the city on edge. take a look. sunny saturday all seems calm but beneath the surface, signs of war feared coming this way. sanctioned bag buildings, sheet metal protecting windows, ukraine flag autograph by combat units. terrible. very terrible. beyond understand reason for these invasion. this is the other side of hundreds of desperate people coming from all over ukraine hit by the russian military coming to the train station and trying to get through at least freedom
lighting themselves in fighting positions within 15 miles of the center of the capitol age siege continue around that port stiff mariupol hundreds of thousands remain trapped without water food, electricity for days now. here in a funeral for three soldier lost on friday ukrainian now says 1300 have been kill bid the russians. just some of the sights and sowngsdz of the city on edge. take a look. sunny saturday all seems calm but beneath the surface, signs of war feared coming this way. sanctioned bag buildings, sheet metal protecting windows, ukraine flag autograph by combat units. terrible. very terrible. beyond understand reason for these invasion. this is the other side of hundreds of desperate people coming from all over ukraine hit by the russian military coming to the train station and trying to get through at least freedom
how is this moment? i just don t get it, you know. people just aren t considerate, man. just want to give all my love to my family, my friends, my people, my new friends, my world. they are my world. y all made this happen. michael brown was unarmed when he was shot and kill bid officer darren wilson after a confrontation on the street. grand jury declined to bring charges against the officer and federal officials concluded there was no evidence to disprove his testimony that he feared for his life. several high-ranking officials also lost their jobs, including the police chief. authorities in arlington, texas, are now asking for the fbi s help into the investigation of a fatal shooting of an unarmed african-american college student. christian taylor is shown before the fatal encounter at a car
murdered by the police as well. that s data i m interested in. sure. so of the 304 black people killed by police in 2014 12 were black women with. it s about 96% of the folks killed by police are men. of course women overall have a muchle smaller proportion of being killinged killed by police. for people who want to see the data make use of them in their writing and activism how do they find it? go to mapping police violence.org to look at the data. one of the things i have learned in my day job is how important the data is and having hard numbers to make the case for change and holding folks accountable to get a result. that result is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the number of folks being kill bid police. sam, i said to charlene she reminds me of ella bake. you remind me of ida b. wells,
larly among black folks by about 5% since 2012. we know if you look for example, at just in this past march compared to february there was an increase in 35% increase in the number of people killed by police and a 71% increase in the number of black people killed by police between those two months. okay . compare the percent taj or number of white americans killed versus black americans. so we know black folks are three timeser more likely to be kill bid police than white folks. 304 black people were killed by police in 2014. what am i to make of the consistent counter claim when we talk about the issue that the real question the real violence issue isn t about violence from police toward civilians but the murder rate in general or as it is often the discourse is black on black crime. i have two rebuttals to that. the first is that it s important for folks to know in 17 of the