There are more than 2,400 elected prosecutors in America. Keith Ellison is *1 of only 4 prosecutors* who has prosecuted and convicted officers in two separate incidents where police killed someone in the past 9 years.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1489631915753811969
The 4 prosecutors who’ve convicted officers in two separate police killings are Keith Ellison (MN), Faith Johnson (Dallas), Paul Howard (Atlanta), Steve Kunzweiler (Tulsa). 3 of them are Black despite fewer than 5% of all prosecutors being Black. 2 were elected out of office.
Source: the Mapping Police Violence organization (mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com)
Additionally, in one of these cases - the murder of Botham Jean, officer Amber Guyger was charged by DA Faith Johnson but Johnson was defeated in an election during the case, with Guyger getting convicted soon after she left. So you could say it’s only 3 prosecutors out of 2,400.
Even prosecutors *most likely to convict officers* still only convict in a small proportion of overall cases they review. About 4% of police killings across these four prosecutor’s jurisdictions end in officers getting convicted. Almost everywhere else is even lower than that.
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