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‘How many names?’ — With seven police shootings this year, Salt Lake County is on pace to have highest number in recent history

West Valley City • Clutching a stack of protest signs, Francesca Ball asked a crowd what they were doing there, on the corner of a busy street outside West Valley City City Hall, on a Saturday. Again.

But those weren’t the answers Ball was looking for. She wanted to know why police keep killing people. She wondered if anyone could give her a good answer for that.

“How many more signs like this do we need to make?” Ball asked, shuffling the white pieces of poster board in her hands, displaying the nearly identical signs: “His name is Darrien Hunt,“ “His name is Patrick Harmon,” and “His name is Dillon Taylor.