Before Monday, U.S. officials had said that at least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time during Biden’s time as president balloons have crossed American airspace.

The so-called ‘honor killing’ was met with condemnation from women’s rights groups and residents, who sounded the alarm on violence against women in Iraq and the need to reform legislation to impose harsher punishments on perpetrators.

The fatal beating of Nichols by five police officers tells the story many residents know by heart: that any encounter, including traffic stops, can be deadly if you’re Black.