So begins a stunning account of police killing and brutality in the United States. Police documents the findings of a joint project of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, the National Lawyers Guild and the Anthony Baez Foundation. To this end, they aim to gather and publish the names and stories of the many, many people killed by U.S. police and border patrol since 1990 - every name, every story that can be uncovered. The Fall 1997 edition of Stolen Lives is this project's first installment. The victims are overwhelmingly African American, Latino, and other people of color.
Many victims are youth.
Each name in Stolen Lives will be read aloud, remembered, and honored in cities across the country on October 22, during the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.