1944: 14-year-old George Stinney is executed by electric chair for murdering two young girls, an accusation based off him being seen talking to the girls and police coercion over the boy
1946: Isaac Woodard, a veteran, is left blinded after being attacked by police officers after arguing with a white bus driver
1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till is tortured and murdered by white men for allegedly making a pass at a white woman
1964: James Chaney and two other Civil Rights Workers (Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner) are killed by Klansmen
1981: 19-year-old Michael Donald is randomly lynched by Klansmen, their motive being they wanted to kill a black man over their anger of the murder of a white police officer (a case that Donald had no connection to whatsoever).
1986: 23-year-old Michael Griffith is beaten and struck by a car by a mob of white young men after Griffith and some of his friends walked through a predominantly white Queens, NY, neighborhood to find help because his his car broke down
1989: Yusef Hawkins is beaten and shot to death by a mob of white men because he was believed to be dating a local white girl
1991: Rodney King is beaten by multiple police officers after a speed chase, even though he was an unarmed.
1998: James Byrd Jr. is beaten by KKK supporters and dragged behind a truck till he died.
2012: 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is shot by a neighborhood watch man while walking from an errand
2014: 12-year-old Tamir Rice is shot by police for holding a toy gun
2020: Ahmed Arbery is shot by white men for jogging in their neighborhood. George Floyd also suffocates from a knee on his neck over an allegedly fake $20 bill.
How much has really changed?
