Portraits of unarmed people of color killed by U.S. police, 1999-2014. After the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner, the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York. Photo: Gawker

By Rich Juzwiak and Aleksander Chan
8 December 2014 (Gawker) – On Wednesday, after the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York. Starting with the most recent death, what follows are more detailed accounts of many of those included in the Legal Defense Fund’s tweets.

Rumain Brisbon, 34, Phoenix, Arizona — 2 December 2014 Rumain Brisbon, 34, of Phoenix, Arizona was an unarmed black father of four. He was shot to death on 2 December 2014 when a police officer apparently mistook his bottle of pills for a gun. Photo: NBC

Brisbon, an unarmed black father of four, was shot to death in when a police officer apparently mistook his bottle of pills for a gun. Aftermath: Pending. [more]

Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014