disease, threats and violence

This is merely a sampling of the violence reported last year.

• February 8: Jocelyn Rojo Carranza, age 1`1, death by suicide after bullied about immigration status
• February 9: Sam Nordquist, transgender man, found dead after being held and tortured for a month.
• February 10: Darnell and A’Millah Curry die of hypothermia, sleeping in van
• February 14: Emily Pike, age 14, found dead and dismembered
• March: Gaines County, Texas measles outbreak spreads to West Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Mexican state of Chihuaha
• April 12: Victor Perez, nonverbal autistic 17-year-old with cerebral palsy shot dead by Idaho police.
• April-May: Measles outbreak in 11 states
• April 25: threats to judiciary
• April 28: Executive Order to increase military weaponry for police, to expand prison capacity, and to enhance legal protections for law enforcement officers’ “aggressive” actions.
• May 19: Rep. LaMonica McIver charged for interfering with ICE
• May 29: Marvin Boomer killed in Oakland
• June 12: Senator Alex Padilla handcuffed, removed at HSA press conference
• June 14: State Rep. Melissa Hortman assassinated with husband
• June 23: Jabari Latrell Peoples shot by police
• July 22: Ke’Torrius Starks, Jr., age 3, dies after left in hot car by social worker
• September 15: Demartavion “Trey” Reed found hanged at Delta State University
• November 13: Torrence Medley found hanged in Wisconsin
• December: South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates

police violence

I did not have enough beads to record incidents of police violence. According to the Mapping Police Violence database,

• there were only six days in 2025 when police did not kill someone in the United States
• U.S. police killed 1,383 people in 2025
• Black people are 2.83 times more likely to be killed by police than white people
• Police killings in the U.S. from 2013-2024:
  • 140 Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders per million
  • 97 Black people per million
  • 61 American Indian and Alaskan Native per million
  • 45 Hispanic per million
  • 35 white people per million
  • 12 Asians per million

measles

In 2025 there were 2,200 cases of measles, the most in decades. This includes the outbreaks that began in Texas and South Carolina.

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