Eric L. Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain and the co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, reveals unheard stories about himself and the other kids who are of color, and their horrific encounters with law enforcements and how “many are concealing some dark truth of the abuse they endured” (Adams) and especially how it went undocumented in the article, “We Must Stop Police Abuse of Black Men.” Also in the article, “ Police Abuse Is a Form of Terror,” Charles M. Blow, an American journalist, commentator and the current visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times, discusses how the black communities are experiencing undocumented domestic terror just as much or even more than the foreign terror America experiences from terrorists. I feel that Adams did a better job at portraying ethos, logos and pathos throughout his article than Blow did.
In Adams’s article, he uses pathos in an excellent way of portraying sympathy to his readers by sharing his own personal traumatic experience. He talks about the days after his first police encounter, “looking into the toilet and seeing blood instead of urine” (Adams). The color of your skin is why you are targetted is what Adams is basically saying. If these were white children who had committed these crimes, they …show more content…
Blow’s article is more of a factual and statistical approach on his article. He includes many statistics, from the Crime rates on the FBI website to studies done at many different universities or institutes. A study done at Annals of Internal Medicine show “that having a gun may increase the chances of being the victim of homicide” (Blow). Although this fact or statistic may be true or valid, I don’t see it to pertain any information or relevance to the argument he is trying to make that “ [ community violence and police involved violence is] a juxtaposition meant to use one problem to drown out another”