Cop knocks out teen for smoking cigarette

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@MarjaE

Cops kill two or three civilians each day, and taze or gas or beat how many more?

2.566666666666667/day killed in September…

Data on police killings

Apparently, there is little to no collected data on police actions that result in a death on a national level, so a journalist is trying to fix that and has decided to crowd source it. Here is his post on Gawker about it: And here are the pages where you can help sort through date and add it to the pool of information: And Gawker’s google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aul9Ys3cd80fdHVMd0luQW5NYkVZNkhORmI0ajFma2c&usp=sharing#gid=0 Seems like a great, practical way to he…