Edited by TJV News
The media continues to bury the victims of the George Floyd protests. TJV researched the death toll thus far from the protests which most media entities refer to as “largely peaceful”. As of June 9th 17 people have died as a result of the protests, including innocent people and several looters.
Fox affiliate in Kansas City reported:
A Kansas City photographer was shot and killed after Sunday night’s protest. Police say three men were trying to steal his Jeep.
His family and Mayor Quinton Lucas want people to know his life was more than his death.
The photographs 50-year-old Marvin Francois took are moments captured in time. Francois loved his family his city, and the art of photography.
The husband and father of four was a software engineer. His son, 18-year-old Jayden Francois, said his true creative passion was taking pictures.
“He could capture life. A moment. A person. An event. Anything in that split second,” Jayden said. “To make it beautiful and to show the world that this is what life is. It is a life worth living.”
Jayden said he’s heartbroken at the loss of his father after Sunday night’s protest. Police said Francois was murdered when three black males tried to carjack him at 46th and Warwick. He was shot three times and died at the scene.
This murder of an innocent by 4 African American men who were drawn to the “cause” did not receive hours of coverage from national media, his death apparently was only worth a single local news report. Meanwhile, the media has covered the pushing of a elderly protester in Buffalo, wall-to-wall for over a week.
Mr. Marvin Francois death is an after thought, when the media is in the business of creating a narrative and not actually reporting.
Below are capsules of several other victims of this movement which has swept the nation.
You must all pause to ask yourselves, why is national media downplaying or outright ignoring these people’s deaths?
- David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St. Louis police captain was shot and killed on June 2 by looters who broke into a pawn shop. Dorn went to the pawn shop to check on a burglar alarm. The shooting apparently was streamed on Facebook Live but has been taken down. It came on a violent night in St. Louis, which saw four officers shot, businesses burned and ransacked, and people pelting officers with rocks hours following a peaceful protest. Stephan Cannon, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, felon in possession of a firearm, St. Louis police said on June 7, Fox news reported
- David McAtee, the 53-year-old owner of a barbecue restaurant was shot and killed on June 1 in Louisville. Police and the National Guard troops were trying to clear a crowd when they heard gunshots and returned fire.The mayor fired the police chief after finding out officers did not turn on their body-worn cameras. State police and the U.S. attorney also are investigating.Police say a surveillance camera captured McAtee firing a gun as officers approached. “This video does not provide all the answers. But we are releasing it to provide transparency. It does not answer every question, including why did he fire and where were police at the time he fired,” acting Police Chief Robert Schroeder said.
- Chris Beaty, 38, who played football for Indiana University and was known as “Mr. Indianapolis,” was shot and killed on the street in downtown Indianapolis on May 30 during a protest. Cops haven’t released information about Beaty’s death.
- Dorian Murrell, 18, was fatally shot in Indianapolis the same night as Beaty. Cops say the man who shot him, Tyler Newby, 29, told police the shooting happened after he and friend found a gas canister on the ground as they were walking around downtown after the protests. They said after picking it up they were approached by a group of about 10 males who asked them what they found. According to the court documents, Newby claimed he was pushed to the ground and saw Murrell standing over him, so he shot Murrell one time, Fox 59 Indianapolis reported. Newby has been charged with murder.
- Italia Kelly, 22, was shot and killed June 1 in Davenport, Iowa, as she was leaving a protest outside a Walmart. Kelly and a friend were getting in a vehicle to leave because a protest had turned unruly when she was struck in the back by a bullet, said her aunt, Amy Hale of Atchison, Kansas. No arrests have been made, Fox reported
- Patrick Underwood, 53, a federal officer, died as he was providing security at a U.S. courthouse in Oakland, Calif., during a protest when someone fired shots from a vehicle. Another officer was critically wounded. It wasn’t immediately clear if the drive-by shooting was related to the protests, though the federal building’s glass doors were smashed and the front entrance was sprayed with anti-police graffiti. No one has been arrested. Underwood, who was black, and the other officer were contracted security officers employed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service. They were monitoring a nearby protest, Fox News reported.
- Javar Harrell, a 21-year-old man, was killed in downtown Detroit on June 5 after someone fired shots into a vehicle during a protest. According to a police report, Harrell, of Eastpointe, Mich., was sitting in the driver’s seat of a car in a parking lot with two others when someone opened fire and then ran away. Detroit police have released photos of Harrell’s suspected killer, a man in a surgical mask, and a dark hooded sweater.
- Jose Gutierrez, 28, of Chicago, was fatally shot during unrest following a protest in Cicero on June 1, according to reports. He was shot as people were breaking into businesses in the neighborhood and taking whatever they could carry, police said. They said Gutierrez was a bystander, not involved in any looting. Zion Haygood of Chicago has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting.
- According to deep searches an additional 7 people were killed , who were involved with looting or attacking police officers