Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice: All three of these black individuals were killed by a police officer this year in ways that I and many other Americans find unjust.
Brown was shot multiple times by an officer. Garner repeatedly stated, “I can’t breathe,” after an officer put him into an illegal chokehold. Rice was just a 12-year-old boy playing with a fake gun in a park when police officers abruptly approached him and shot him down.