Tired of Best Movies of the Year lists? Well this should be a refreshing change of pace. Let's take a look at the year in unarmed black people, mostly but not exclusively males, killed by police in 2015. It's worth a review because, as you know by now, part of the process of normalizing these incidents is that you can't focus on any one because they happen so regularly that the media and public never follow any single case to its conclusion, with rare exceptions. I'll cheat just a little by starting at the end of 2014 since 12 year old Tamir Rice was shot in Cleveland by an officer who, it was just announced, will not be punished. This is just a sample of officer-involved killings in 2015, and I've sampled only the most egregiously sketchy cases here. If you want to sort through all 1,190 (so far) from 2015, knock yourself out. Otherwise take a look at this timeline and be honest with yourself about how many of these cases you remember hearing about when the link jogs your memory but otherwise had completely forgotten.
Nov. 22, 2014
Tamir Rice, 12, Cleveland OH
(Officers exonerated)
Dec. 2
Rumain Brisbon, 34, Phoenix AZ
(Officers exonerated)
Dec. 30
Jerame Reid, 36, Bridgeton, NJ
(Routine traffic stop, on video)
Jan. 8, 2015
Artago Damon Howard, 36, Union County, AR
(Weapon discharged "accidentally")
Feb. 4
Jeremy Lett, 28, Tallahassee, FL
(Unarmed, no criminal record, "fit description" of burglary suspect)
Feb. 15
Lavall Hall, 25, Miami Gardens, FL
(Mentally ill, wielding a broomstick)
Feb. 28
Thomas Allen, 34, Wellston, MO
(Cop jumps in moving car to shoot fleeing suspect, "feared for his life" despite fleeing)
March 1
Charly Leundeu Keunang, 43, Los Angeles, CA
(Seven cops against one unarmed homeless man)
March 6
Naeschylus Vinzant, 37, Aurora, CO
(Unarmed, skipped parole)
March 6
Tony Robinson, 19, Madison, WI
(Officer emptied weapon blindly while retreating, unarmed)
March 8
Anthony Hill, 27, DeKalb County, GA
(Mentally ill Air Force veteran, naked when shot)
March 12
Bobby Gross, 35, Washington, DC
(Mentally ill, naked, wielding tree branch, was on DC Metro tracks when shot)
March 19
Brandon Jones, 18, Cleveland, OH
April 2
Eric Harris, 44, Tulsa, OK (Shot "accidentally" by a 73 year old "reserve deputy" playing cop)
April 4
Walter Scott, 50, North Charleston, SC (Officer indicted for murder, since it was on video and he attempted to plant a weapon)
April 15
Frank Shephard, 41, Houston, TX
(Killed after chase)
April 22
William Chapman, 18, Portsmouth, VA
(Officer fired)
April 25
David Felix, 24, NYC
(Mentally ill)
May 5
Brendon Glenn, 29, Venice, CA
(Shooting on video ruled "justified")
June 15
Kris Jackson, 22, South Lake Tahoe, CA
(Officer claimed "perceived a threat", no weapon found)
June 25
Spencer McCain, 41, Owings Mills, MD
(Officer claimed he had a weapon; unarmed)
July 12
Salvado Ellswood, 36, Plantation, FL
(Homeless man slapped officer, who shot him multiple times)
July 13
Sandra Bland, 28, Hempstead, TX
July 17
Albert Joseph Davis, 23, Orlando, FL
(Shot in back while fleeing)
July 17
Darrius Stewart, 19, Memphis, TN
(Officer mistaked him for a suspect)
July 19
Samuel Dubose, 43, Cincinnati, OH
(Officer fired, charges possible)
Aug. 7
Christian Taylor, 19, Arlington, TX
(Officer fired, "regrets" shooting)
Aug. 21
Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, St. Louis, MO (Police claimed he was aiming a gun at them; autopsy revealed he was shot in the back)
Sept. 23
Jeremy McDole, 28, Wilmington, DE (Paraplegic shot after allegedly brandishing gun from his wheelchair)
Oct. 18
Corey Jones, 31, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Shot by plainclothes cop while waiting by his disabled vehicle on highway)
Nov. 15
Jamar Clark, 24, Minneapolis, MN (Shot while handcuffed, protesters later shot at by white supremacists)
Dec. 26
Quintonio Greer, 19, and Bettie Jones, 55, Chicago, IL (Greer "acted erratically" and Jones, an uninvolved neighbor, was shot "accidentally" according to the CPD)
And remember, this is just a slice of the nearly 1200 people killed by police in the U.S. this year.