Tweets About Police

AVERAGE SENTIMENT OF POLICE-RELATED TWEETS Average Sentiment 0.00162 0.02790 More Negative More Positive 0.030 0.025 0.020 0.015 0.010 0.005 0.000 8/9/2014 Michael Brown dies after being shot by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Black residents protest the shooting, claiming Wilson shot Brown due to the color of his skin. Ferguson police say Wilson shot Brown in self-defense. 12/19/2014 New York City police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos are shot dead by Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He said he did it to get revenge for NYPD officers killing Eric Garner earlier that year in July. 4/19/2015 Freddie Gray dies after a spinal cord injury allegedly caused by Baltimore police. 7/13/2015 Sandra Bland is pulled over for not using her turn signal when changing lanes in Prairie View, Texas on July 10. After arguing, the traffic officer pulls Bland from her car and then arrests her. Bland is found dead in her jail cell July 13. 07/19/2015 Cincinnati Officer Ray Tensing fatally shoots unarmed black man Samuel DuBose after a routine traffic stop. Source Protection Twitter.com SEC EEURITY SOLU AVERAGE SENTIMENT 6/2014 7/2014 8/2014 9/2014 10/2014 11/2014 12/2014 1/2015 2/2015 3/2015 4/2015 5/2015 6/2015 7/2015 8/2015 9/2015 10/2015 11/2015 12/2015 1/2016