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They Did Shoot Back: A 21st Century Retaliatory Sampler

Challenging the erasure of counterviolence against the enforcers & normalizers of anti-Blackness within the so-called “united states”.

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March 2000: Ronald Taylor kills 4 colonizers in a housing block & at fast food restaurants.

March 2009: Lovelle Mixon kills 4 cops after 2 engage in a routine harassment stop.

November 2009: Maurice Clemmons kills 4 cops in a coffee shop.

February 2013: Christopher Dorner kills 4 cops & 1 cop fiancé. An annotated version of Dorner's statement explaining why is available online.

December 2014: Ismaaiyl Brinsley kills 2 cops in response to the police killings of Mike Brown & Eric Garner.

July 2016: Micah Xavier Johnson kills 5 cops a couple days after the execution of Alton Sterling.

July 2016: Cosmo Ausar Setepenra kills 3 cops, explaining why in the manifesto reproduced at the end of this article.

May 2025: Rodney Hinton responds to the police execution of their child, Ryan Hinton, by killing a cop.

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