July 2015: BLM activists seize the mic at a Democratic candidate forum to grill Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders on police violence.
Nov. 2015: A judge orders the release of dash-cam footage that appears to show McDonald walking away from police when he was shot. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fires his police chief the next month.
Feb. 7, 2016: Beyonce's dancers adopt a Black Panther look for the Super Bowl halftime show. Police unions call for a boycott of the star.
Feb. 24, 2016: BLM activists disrupt a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, demanding she apologize for her racially charged comments about "super predators" during the 1990s. Clinton appears irritated, but the next day she does just that."
May 2016: The first state "Blue Lives Matter" bill passes in Louisiana. Attacking a cop is now a hate crime.
June 2016: The police-van driver in the Freddie Gray case is acquitted.
July 5, 2016: Alton Sterling is fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while officers have him pinned to the ground.
July 6, 2016: During a traffic stop, a Minnesota cop shoots Philando Castile as he reaches for his wallet -- that's according to Castile's girlfriend, who livestreams his demise on Facebook: "You told him to get his ID, sir!"
July 7, 2016: A black gunman kills five cops at a Dallas protest against police violence. He holes up in a parking garage, where police kill him with an explosives-bearing robot.
July 12, 2016: President Barack Obama defends Black Lives Matter at a memorial for the slain officers. "We have all seen this bigotry in our lives at some point," and "none of us is entirely innocent," he says. "That includes our police departments."
July 17, 2016: A black military veteran ranted online about the treatment of black people by police assassinates three officers (one of them black) in Baton Rouge.
July 18, 2016: At the Republican National Convention, Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, who is black, proclaims that "blue lives matter." In an op-ed the same day, he calls Black Lives Matter the "enemy."
July 18, 2016: A police officer in Florida shoots a black caregiver who was lying in the street with his hands up. A union rep explains that the officer had been aiming at the man's autistic patient, whose toy truck he mistook for a firearm.
July 27, 2016: After further acquittals in the Freddie Gray case, charges are dropped against the remaining officers.
Aug. 2016: 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick starts sitting out the national anthem to protest police violence. A few pros and countless high school and college athletes follow suit.
Sept. 2016: Clinton debates Donald Trump: "I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police," she says. Critics pounce. "Yes, Hillary Clinton called the nation racist," writes a Washington Times columnist.
Oct. 2016: Attorney General Loretta lynch says the DOJ will (finally) start collecting national data on police use of force.
Dec. 2016: A jury of 11 whites and one African American deadlocks in the trial of Michael Slager. A new trial is slated for 2017. Slager is later convicted in a federal court for a civil rights violation.
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