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'Football is Not Important Today': Lions Take a Stand, & the Mic, on Shooting of Jacob BlakeThe Detroit Lions canceled practice today and instead held a media session completely dedicated to discussing Sunday’s shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin....

Jacob Blake Is Why Roger Goodell's Words Are MeaninglessThe master of spin is at it again. ...

Police Appear To Shoot Stolen Van Suspect On Live TelevisionKTLA in Los Angeles broadcast what appears to be a live shooting this afternoon as a suspect police say stole a van was taken down by police. The network didn’t provide much information after that, and obviously cut away quickly—to the search for an additional suspect, it turns out; we’ll update as ...

Deadspin Police-Shooting Database Update: We're Still Going

Last Wednesday, we launched an impossibly ambitious project: cataloguing every police-involved shooting in America over the last three years. After one week, we're further along than we could have imagined. ...

We're Compiling Every Police-Involved Shooting In America. Help Us.

The United States has no database of police shootings. There is no standardized process by which officers log when they've discharged their weapons and why. There is no central infrastructure for handling that information and making it public. Researchers, confronted with the reality that there ...