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| Tanisha Anderson |
"Officers came to the house after a call from a family member who thought the police could calm the bi-polar Tanisha down...
Tanisha changed her mind about the [mental] evaluation after police slapped cuffs on her. She believed she was within her rights to decide whether she went for a voluntary evaluation. But police, at this point, argued that it was up to them.[Her brother] Joell says that after she hit her head on the concrete, and the officer placed his knee on her back, she never opened her eyes or spoke another word....
The November 13th police homicide was made official by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office announcement. The police report on the incident admits that Anderson was 'not violent.' "
READ MORE: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/02/tanisha-anderson-was-literally-praying-for-help/
According to the Huffington Post, "early data indicates black women account for nearly 20% of those unarmed blacks killed by officers in the past 15 years."
Tanisha Anderson was one of the 20%
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/silence-on-black-female-victims_b_7092128.html
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