Fewer than 1 in every 3 black person killed by a police officer are allegedly violent and armed, the rest are innocent civilians at the wrong at the wrong time. Black people are 3 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than white people, this just shows the stereotypes that police officers have on african americans. Racism is still alive.

Police brutality is a serious crime and should be treated like one yet people are dying due to police officers mistreating their authority.

First of all police are the people who are hired to protect people from crime and arrest those who commit crimes but recently there have been many cases where police are killing or severely injuring innocent bystanders. This action is called police brutality. When police officers kill innocent people, it causes stereotypes. A stereotype is when you expect someone to do something or be something …show more content…
In November 2014, a african american twelve-year-old boy named Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a white police officer, Timothy Loehmann. In Cleveland, Ohio, the boy was playing with a toy pellet gun at a recreation center. A 911 caller reported seeing the gun, and even though the caller told the dispatcher that the gun was “most likely fake,” the dispatcher did not tell the officer they sent to the scene. A video recording of the incident showed the police vehicle pulling up to a gazebo where the boy was standing, followed by the police officer pelting the boy with gunfire only seconds after exiting the vehicle. Other officers at the scene supported Loehmann’s statement that the gun looked real. The boy who gave Rice the pellet gun said that the orange plastic tip had come off the gun and it was almost impossible to reattach; this tip was designed to make it clear that the gun was a toy. A grand jury chose not to indict Loehmann for the shooting, a decision that created anger among civil rights