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Exclusive: Blacks are only 7% of the Bay Area, but 27% of those killed by police

Exclusive: Blacks are only 7% of the Bay Area, but 27% of those killed by police

4 years ago
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/28/110-deaths-police-killings-in-the-bay-area-since-2015-result-in-no-prosecutions-of-cops-and-little-discipline/

Chinedu Okobi was a Black man walking in a city where people of his race make up less than 1 percent of the population. And when he began acting oddly on an October afternoon in 2018, wandering into traffic on El Camino Real in Millbrae, sheriff’s deputies quickly arrived.

Okobi, who wasn’t armed, tried to walk away when an officer questioned him. Minutes later, the father and Morehouse College graduate who had battled with mental illness was dead, stunned seven times with a Taser by a San Mateo County deputy until his heart gave out. At one point, he is heard screaming on a video, “somebody help me,” before deputies pile on top of him.