#Citizens Killed by #US #State #Forces

Guardian Creates Database of Citizens Killed by US State Forces

Robert Barsocchini

The Guardian has created a database called “The Counted: People killed by police in the US“.

 

Screenshot of database, which contains page after page of names and, for some of the slain, photos.

Over five hundred people have been killed domestically by the US state so far this year, with at least another five hundred expected to be killed by year’s end.

By percentage of group, the country’s Indigenous people are killed most often, with African Americans and Hispanic/Latino people killed most by overall number.

The Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that, on average, US state forces take the lives of about 1,000 of their own people per year.  These numbers are known to be a gross under-count, representing, at best, about “46 percent of officer-involved homicides”.

#Herbicide #US Sprays over Millions of Acres in #Colombia “ #DrugWar ” Linked to #Cancer

by Robert Barsocchini

 

The Associated Press reports that “the world’s most-popular weed killer” has been discovered to be “a likely cause of cancer”:

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a French-based research arm of the World Health Organization, has reclassified the herbicide glyphosate as a result of what it said is convincing evidence the chemical produces cancer in lab animals and more limited findings it causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans.

…the glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup [made by Monsanto] is a mainstay of industrial agriculture.