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Gabriella NevarezMarch 2, 2014 / Sacramento, Californiawas in the car with her. Carey’s lawyer claims thatthe narrative presented by the police is false, andthat the media’s failure to interrogate official accountsof the incident helped to justify her senselesskilling. No charges have been filed against theofficers. 17Shantel DavisJune 14, 2012 / Brooklyn, New YorkPolice killed 22-year-old Gabriella Nevarez afterher grandmother called the police because Nevarezhad taken her car after an argument. Officersat the scene claimed that after they tried to apprehendher, she led them on a high-speed chase andattempted to ram her car into their vehicle. The officersclaimed they opened fire in self-defense, butpassengers reported that Nevarez lost control ofthe car and crashed after she was shot. Since herdeath many have questioned why the police failedto use nonlethal force to subdue her. 15Miriam CareyOctober 3, 2013 / Washington D.C.Phillip Atkins, a plainclothes detective, fatally shotShantel Davis, an unarmed 23-year-old woman, inEast Flatbush, Brooklyn. Police say they noticed herdriving erratically and followed her. The car chasecame to a halt when she collided with a minivan. Atkinsthen fatally shot Davis in the chest. Atkins laterclaimed that he had accidentally fired his gun as hestruggled with her to shift the car into “park.” Witnessescontradicted his statements. Davis was pronounceddead at the hospital following the incident. 18Malissa WilliamsNovember 29, 2012 / Cleveland, Ohio12Federal agents killed Miriam Carey, a 34-year-olddental hygienist and suburban mother, after sheallegedly sped away from a White House checkpoint.Secret Service officers claimed that theyapproached her and told her to stop at the checkpointsite and that she refused to do so. ValarieCarey, Miriam’s sister, and her attorney, Eric Sanders,claim that the official report of the incidentshows that the altercation actually started whenan undercover agent moved a large object intoCarey’s path, and she swerved to avoid him, hittinga barricade instead. They say that Carey likelytried to drive off from the scene out of fear, andbecame increasingly frantic as officers chasedand shot at her from behind. 16 Officers fired severalshots as they pursued her, and they continuedto fire even after her car had stopped. She was hitin the back of her head, three times in the backand once on her left arm. Her one-year-old baby30-year-old Malissa Williams was a passenger inthe front seat of Timothy Russell’s car when herefused to pull over for police after Russell’s carbackfired, and the officers mistook the sound fora gunshot. The police followed Russell’s car in ahigh-speed chase across Cleveland, which endedwith police opening fire on the car. Williams andRussell were killed when Officer Michael Breloclimbed up onto the hood of the car and fired severalrounds at them. Neither Russell nor Williamswere armed. Brelo’s use of deadly force has been