PEORIA, Ill. — An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff's deputy of second-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

A history of police violence in America

Intro

1704: Start of slave patrols in South Carolina

1838: First police department

1865: Southern states establish first 'black codes'

Dec. 24, 1865: Ku Klux Klan formed

1877: Protesters and law enforcement clash in the Great Railroad Strike

May 4, 1886: Labor leaders, strikers protest police brutality in the Haymarket riots

Sept. 10, 1897: Immigrant miners are attacked in the Lattimer massacre

1904: Parchman Farm in Mississippi shifts from plantation to prison

1916: Start of Great Migration causes racial tensions

May 22, 1917: Ell Persons lynching

1919:

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