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This App Tells You Whenever U.S. Police Officers Kill Somebody

“Archives + Absences” might make you never want to get a push notification again.
A vigil in honor of Bettie Jones, who was killed by a police officer in Chicago.REUTERS/Frank Polich

Timothy Albert. Jim Redmond. Samuel Grady. Timothy Carruthers. Jordan Szymanski. Eric Provost. Vasilios Katsouras. Levi Wilson.

These eight people have all been fatally shot by police since Monday. You’d know that already if you had “Archives + Absences,” an app that sends you push notifications whenever a cop kills somebody in the U.S.