Demand justice after police shootings now!

Keith Lamont Scott of Charlotte, North Carolina, had been waiting in his car for his son to arrive home from school, and Terence Crutcher, of Tulsa, Oklahoma had been waiting at the side of the road after his truck stalled. Both men are now dead, wrongfully gunned down by police. Both are Black men.

This is not a coincidence. More than 700 people have been shot and killed by police in 2016 so far. Studies show that, even though White Americans outnumber Black Americans five-fold, Black people are three times more likely than White people to be killed when they encounter the police in the US, and Black teenagers are 21 time more likely to be killed by police than White teenagers.

This week alone two families are devastated, and two communities are reeling. But have their shooters been arrested? No. They have been sent home with full pay.

Join us in calling for the police officers responsible for Scott and Crutcher’s deaths to be brought to justice and indicted immediately, for the North Carolina General Assembly to mandate public access to body cam footage and citizen review committees to investigate police shootings, and for the federal government to do more to stop police brutality.

We, the undersigned, demand the following:

The police officers responsible for the deaths of Keith Scott and Terence Crutcher to be indicted and brought to justice immediately;
The North Carolina General Assembly mandate public access to body cam footage and create citizen review committees established to investigate police shootings;

We further urge the DOJ and the Obama Administration to take definitive and immediate action, including but not limited to the following reforms:

A fully-resourced and rigorous civil rights and criminal investigation by the DOJ into discriminatory policing, excessive force, and death or injury by police in every state in the country;
A comprehensive, streamlined, public national-level database of police shootings; excessive force, misconduct complaints, traffic and pedestrian stops, and arrests, broken down by race and other demographic data, with key privacy protections, the exclusion of personally identifying factors and information, and deportation immunity for civilians;
Mandating of Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) in every state and inter-state coordination between all POSTs;
An executive order that creates a strong and enforceable prohibition on police brutality and discriminatory policing based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability, and housing status;
Increased funding for the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights to ensure additional, accessible state-level responders for police and other civil rights violations Divestment of federal anti-drug grants and federal funding for police departments that demonstrate abuse of power and massive reinvestment in community controlled and based policing practices;
Support for the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA);
Streamlined national use of force matrix and mandating that state and local police have clear and streamlined matrices; and
Enforce new strict limits on asset seizure without due process and the transfer of any military equipment to local law enforcement under the 1033 program, guidelines that ensure that the equipment is not used on non-violent protesters, and an end to the requirement that such military weaponry is used within a year.

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