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Category: Written Accounts

Associated Press Article: A Look at Police Killings Cited by Protesters

September 8, 2025 November 13, 2025
Categories: Community Response, Media, Written Accounts Tags: 137 Shots Akai Gurley Beavercreek Police Department Bernard Bailey Cleveland Police Department Eric Garner John Crawford III Michael Brown New York City Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo Officer Darren Wilson Officer Sean Williams Officer Timothy Loehmann police brutality Police Chief Richard Combs police killing Protest Rumain Brisbon systemic injustice Tamir Rice

Bill Swain, Revolutionary Communist Party, Poster Remembering Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell

June 6, 2023 July 10, 2025
Categories: Art, Community Response, Visual Accounts, Written Accounts Tags: Bill Swain Cleveland Police Department East Cleveland Malissa Williams Memorial Poster Interviews 2017 Officer Brelo police killing Protest Puncture the Silence Revolutionary Communist Party systemic injustice Timothy Russell weapons

2020 Uprising Account

May 1, 2021 October 9, 2023
Categories: Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: 2020 Uprising Cleveland Police Department George Floyd police brutality police killing Protest Stephen Thomas McCarthy III systemic injustice weapons
Personal Account of Injury Sustained at May 30, 2020 Demonstration for Justice for George Floyd

Personal Account of Injury Sustained at May 30, 2020 Demonstration for Justice for George Floyd

May 1, 2021 February 23, 2026
Categories: Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: 2020 Uprising Cleveland Police Department George Floyd Mayor Frank Jackson Ohio National Guard police brutality Police Chief Calvin Williams police fire on protest police killing Protest systemic injustice weapons

Personal Account of Prosecutorial Misconduct

January 20, 2021 February 23, 2026
Categories: Written Accounts Tags: Cuyahoga County Courts Cuyahoga County Prosecutor federal prosecutor North Olmstead Police Department Ohio Attorney General systemic injustice
Personal Account and Photo, “I will make this also clear: I heard no dispersal notice whatsoever.”

Personal Account and Photo, “I will make this also clear: I heard no dispersal notice whatsoever.”

July 15, 2020 October 27, 2025
Categories: Community Response, Visual Accounts, Written Accounts Tags: 2020 Uprising Calvin Williams Cleveland Mayor Cleveland Police Chief Cleveland Police Department Cuyahoga County Sheriffs Department Frank Jackson George Floyd police brutality police killing Protest systemic injustice weapons

Personal Account from I Can’t Breathe Justice For George Floyd Rally

May 30, 2020 October 9, 2023
Categories: Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: 2020 Uprising Black Lives Matter Cleveland Safety Commissioner George Floyd John Sanders police brutality police killing Protest systemic injustice weapons
Youth Testimony–Money Confiscated; Profiling and Degrading Treatment

Youth Testimony–Money Confiscated; Profiling and Degrading Treatment

May 10, 2017 February 26, 2026
Categories: Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center Juvenile Detention Interviews 2017 police brutality police profiling Property Seizure Puncture the Silence
Personal Account and Photo–The Story of Kiana Nicole Blakey

Personal Account and Photo–The Story of Kiana Nicole Blakey

August 19, 2016 February 26, 2026
Categories: Art, Visual Accounts, Written Accounts Tags: Art Blakey Bob Avakian Cleveland Police Department Kiana Nicole Blakey police killing systemic injustice Victims' Loved Ones
Letter from Tamir’s Family’s Lawyers

Letter from Tamir’s Family’s Lawyers

October 16, 2015 March 3, 2026
Categories: Community Response, Family Members, Written Accounts Tags: Cleveland Police Department Jonathan Abady police killing Protest special prosecutor systemic injustice Tamir Rice

Turner, Kellen Oral History Interview

August 19, 2015 October 21, 2025
Categories: Audio Accounts, Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: Kellen Turner oral history project 2015 out of town connection police killing Puncture the Silence weapons

Anonymous Oral History Interview–ID#2097

August 19, 2015 October 20, 2025
Categories: Audio Accounts, Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: Black Shield Cleveland Police Department oral history project 2015 police killing Puncture the Silence systemic injustice
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Categories: Audio Accounts, Community Response, Written Accounts Tags: Black Shield Cleveland Police Department oral history project 2015 police killing Puncture the Silence systemic injustice 2097

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