Richard Wayne Beatty

How they died

Deadly force

Homeless and well known to the police, Beatty reportedly threatened cafeteria customers with a knife in the early morning hours. After a 12-block foot chase he turned and directly threatened officers, and was shot to death with 17 rounds. Police remained tight-lipped about the shooting due in part to then-current federal investigations about allegations of their department planting weapons and fabricating evidence.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Richard Wayne Beatty, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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