Police use images of black men for target practice
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North Miami Beach police are facing scrutiny after it has been discovered that they used images of African-American men for target practice.
Sgt. Valarie Deant, a national guardsman, saw the target images that the police left behind and noticed a very familiar face among them, her brother Woody. It was his mugshot taken years ago.
“And I was like, why is my brother being used for target practice?,” Deant said to NBC Miami. The image of her brother’s face had a bullet hole through his eye and his forehead. Deant said she broke down and cried.
“She said oh my God, they use you as target practice,” Woody Deant said. “People that are out there who are suppose to be protecting us are using us as target practice.”
The title of this article makes this sound so much more racially oriented than it is. They're using pictures of real individuals, some are black and some are not. If they were using only photos of black men, that would be inexcusable, but this isn't the case.
