At a Guardian Live event in London,a panel of writers, historians and activists discuss the shocking deaths of US citizens by police officers. Did race play a role in the killings, and what can we do to end them happening again?Michael Brown in Ferguson,Missouri and Eric Garner in New York both died at the hands of US police officers. At a Guardian Live event, an expert panel query whether policing is out of control, or whether race played a role in these cases and what can be done to better regulate America’s police departments. The US government keeps no comprehensive record of deaths at the hands of US police,so the Guardian’s investigative project The Counted, which tracks police killings across the country, or has become the most dependable record of fatal police violence in 2015.
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Source: theguardian.com