Sandra Bland is one of many black women who have died in police custody.
Tanisha Anderson was a 37-year-old woman struggling with mental illness who died after Cleveland police slammed her head into the pavement outside of her family’s home in 2014.
Miriam Carey was a 34-year-old dental hygienist who made a wrong turn near the White House and was fatally shot by federal law enforcement officers in 2013.
Yvette Smith was a 47-year-old woman who was shot and killed by Texas police officers as she opened the door to her home for police in 2014.
Natasha McKenna was 37 years old when she was restrained by Virginia police, shackled at the legs and shot with a stun gun four times earlier this year. She stopped breathing and died at a hospital several days later.
Rekia Boyd was a 22-year-old woman living in Chicago when she was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.
Mya Hall was a 27-year-old transgender woman who was shot and killed by National Security Agency guards after crashing a car into a government facility.
Shelly Frey was a 27-year-old mother of two who was shot by Wal-Mart security who accused her of shoplifting.
Darnisha Harris was only a teenager when Louisiana law enforcement officials fired two shots into the car she was driving in 2012.
Malissa Williams, 30, died after Cleveland police fired 137 times into the car that she was riding in with Timothy Russell.
Alesia Thomas was 35 when she was kicked to death by a Los Angeles Police officer.
Shantel Davis was 23 when she was shot and killed by plainclothes New York Police officers in Brooklyn in 2012.
Shereese Francis, 29, had mental illness and died after NYPD officers arrived at her home to help her family transport her to a local hospital. Four officers pressed on her back to handcuff her, and lawyers for the family later sued, saying they suffocated Francis.
Aiyana Stanley-Jones was only 7 when Detroit police officers barged into her family’s home with their guns drawn, shooting her in the head.
Tarika Wilson, 26, was killed and her 14-month-old son was wounded in 2008 after Ohio police opened fire in her home.
Kathryn Johnson was 92 years old when she was shot and killed by Atlanta police officers in a botched 2006 raid.
Alberta Spruill was 57 when she died after NYPD officers mistakenly threw a stun grenade into her home.
Kendra James was 21 when she was killed by Portland police officers in 2003.
These are just some of their names. We must say them and remember them for all women of color.
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