6. Georgia: 22
Georgia has had 22 people killed by cops so far in 2015. Most took the form of the standard “punk encounters police and gets shot/tased to death” but two of those killings occurred in police custody. The most notorious is the case of Matthew Ajibade, a 21 year old Nigerian student who was killed in a jail cell by officers in a Savannah, GA jail. He was arrested after a domestic altercation with his girlfriend. She told cops that he had underlying mental conditions, and supplied them with his medicine. Hours later however, Ajibade was found dead in his cell, having sustained a severe beating and head trauma that was determined to have ended his life. Nine officers were fired and three have been charged with manslaughter.
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