Say Their Names
Robert Hoyt: In 1973 an unarmed Black man named Robert Hoyt rear ended a police officer named Raymond Peterson who was in an unmarked vehicle. Hoyt had allegedly fallen asleep after a long day of work and driving home late at night. Peterson thought the accident was planned and his Partner named Gary Prochorow witnessed the accident while he was in his own unmarked vehicle. Prochorow thought that the collision was planned and told Hoyt to pull over. As he was doing so Prochorow fired his weapon at Hoyt. Robert Hoyt panicked and tried to flee. When this happened he became surrounded and had to get out of the car. When doing so the officers assumed he had a weapon and Peterson shot Hoyt in the abdomen. When they realized he had no weapon, “Peterson cut his jacket with a knife, cleaned it of fingerprints, and flung it near the crime scene.” Peterson had 41 citations and had caused six injuries to others while also having Hoyt as his 10th gun victim in a year. Peterson nor Prochorow suffered any consequences for
Laquan McDonald: This event occurred in 2014 to a seventeen year old boy named Laquan McDonald. He was shot a total of sixteen times and of those fourteen, he was already dead. Laquan McDonald was shot and killed after a police call about breaking into cars and stabbing tires with a pocket knife. When police arrived to see what was going on he ran away. As soon as he started running away a police officer named Jason Van Dyke ended Laquan’s life. He was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
Botham Jean: An off-duty Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger went into the apartment of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean due to noise complaints she had filed multiple times. Amber had falsely said that Botham charged at her which made her draw her weapon at him. In an autopsy report he was sitting down while he had gotten shot or was either fearing for his life crouching trying not to get shot. He did nothing wrong at all. She was charged with 10 years for murder.
Fanta Bility
She was an 8 year old Girl who was shot by three police officers in 2021. She was mistaken for a 16 year old boy and 18 year old boy who had got into a physical altercation that turned more violent with gun shots being fired. The officers decided they were going to shoot in the direction they had heard the shots but did not think about there actions fully. The three officers were later fired.