...communities’ response to police brutality particularly in the black communities and also their encounters with police officers. Police brutality is physical violence and great cruelty demonstrated by a police officer. Police brutality and misconduct have existed for many decades and it even has been broadcasted in news stories over America, but nothing has changed. It has happened predominantly to African Americans in lower-income states. Police officers are given slaps on the wrist for taking a life or injuring an innocent person. This will show how police brutality has affected black communities and how African American communities’ have responded to it with movements and protest, and how they try to overcome...
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...Even prior to the killing of unarmed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, there were three documented killings of black males by law enforcement officers in 2014 . Most noteworthy of the three were Eric Garner, who was put in an illegal chokehold by a white police officer for fifteen seconds, resulting in his death. Officer Daniel Pantaleo was never charged1. After the killing of Michael Brown, another twelve cases of unarmed black men shot and killed by law enforcement have caught the public’s attention. In the sixteen cases, six cases are still undergoing in-vestigation. Four officers have been charged for the killings, and three of the officers were charged with involuntary manslaughter. In five of the sixteen cases, no...
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...Police brutality is the use of excessive force by officers against civilians. The word “excessive” meaning more than is actually necessary. In today’s society police brutality has almost become an every month occurrence. It seems as if every month there is a different case of police brutality being flashed across our television screens. Police Brutality is very detrimental in our society today because it start riots, upset citizens, and implement fear of future incidents in the hearts of civilians. Just the thought of police brutality saddens citizens all across the country. There has been many cases where officers who were accused of committing police brutality have been pardoned by the judge. Majority of those incidents resulted in citizens...
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...husband was fatally shot by the police while reaching for his wallet. Police brutality has become one of America’s biggest, and most controversial topics. Scrutiny surrounds the law enforcement as new cases of shootings, beatings, and assaults emerge every month. Minorities, especially African-Americans, in the country feel targeted, and hopeless against a system they perceive as oppressive, and racist. This issue has created a divide between the police, and the public. In addition, citizens question if the cops are protecting them or not. Although, it may seem like a problem with the law enforcement, both sides contribute to this issue, and continue to increase racial tensions in America....
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...the store as a black man without the fear of getting shot. There is a lot of turmoil and tension in today’s society. The racial divide is crazy even with segregation being over. In this world, the best way to stay alive as a young black male is to stay cautious and to yourself. 276 unarmed black men were stopped and killed in 2015 according to 2erohege.com and mappingpoliceviolent.com/unarmed. Black men everyday are tired but aware of the constant harassment by police to our black men according to The Freethought.com. I have a real life connection to the injustice of police. There was a man who was casually going to the grocery store to get some groceries so when his kids got home they would have something to eat....
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...To the editor, the recent police shootings of mainly african-american men are very concerning and they raise a lot of questions about racism in the police and in the justice system. Many victims arte both unarmed and innocent. More has to be done to prevent these kinds of shootings from happening and to rid the American justice system of its racism. Minorities have been facing discrimation for a long time but in most ways things have improved. The justice system is one of the places were racism still exists and it's one of the most important causes of the problems black people are struggling with today. One of the early shootings that got attention was the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot multiple times by a police officer, but since then too many similar shootings have occured. These events are examples of how african-americans and other minorities are treated differently by the police and by courts. An african-american man isn't just more likely to be shot by the police. If he's found guilty of a crime he's more likely to end up in prison, recieve a longer prison sentence or to recieve the death penalty than a white man guilty of the same crime. There has to be more focus on preventing these shootings and eliminating racism in the justice system. Black lives...
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...Police brutality has been around for hundreds of years, back when racism was a huge problem. Blacks and whites were not considered equal in the eyes of the government and law. White policeman would beat black men, women and children for no reasons at all many of times. Police brutality is the excessive use of force beyond what is necessary to handle a situation. Many people might say Police brutality is not just a racism, which could possibly be true but you see mainly white policeman killing African American men on the news everyday. You cannot just throw out racism as if it does not exist anymore. In the article Excessive or reasonable force by police, the writers John Wihbey and Leighton Walter Kile talks about excessive of the U.S. police...
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...Race Is a Factor in Police Shootings Rosetta Kelly Composition II Tara Turzi 2/15/2015 Race Is a Factor in Police Shootings There was a process that started in 1955 with racism and a 14 year old black teenager named Emmitt Till who was beaten, shot in the head, eyes gouged out, and hung for simply speaking to a white woman. Throughout the years racism and racial profiling progressed from Emmitt Till to recent years targeting another black teen named Trevon Martin. At the age of 17 Trevon Martin, was shot while walking home; his only weapons were a bag of Skittles candy and some juice. The most recent publicized victim of a police shooting was of an unarmed black male named Michael Brown, an eighteen year old who was confronted by the police for jaywalking. Police shootings are an inevitable result of a process that evolved from racism to racial profiling. From the time Africans (Blacks) were snatched from their country, homes and families, and thrown onto slave ships, they were treated like they were less than European Americans, (Whites) and less than human. White Americans went to African villages and stole the people from their families. They subjected these villagers to a cruel sea passage and tremendous abuse. They were kept in bondage by chains, made to work the white’s land, beat, whipped, the women were raped, and all were forced to eat no better than the livestock. They were given just enough food to have energy to work the land without any wages. From...
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... but a worse kind of slavery. It is our minds that are enslaved. We are the victims of unspeakable injustices. They do not want us to prosper. This is why I stand for “Black Lives Matter”. Some might even try to push us away and contradict our ideas with “All Lives Matter”. Yes, all lives do matter, but at the moment it is black lives that are very important. What people do not realize is that Pro-black is not anti-white. People try to bring us down, make us lesser than they, but we only want to be seen as equal. We all deserve...
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...United States. Today, the police are faced with the public, the media, and other groups of individuals who have different perceptions to either back the police or shun them. These men and women who put these uniforms on have a job to do, a family to support, and a place to defend from criminals of every race or ethnic background. Most of today’s people would not put themselves in a police officer’s shoes and deal with day to day problems that are to be dealt with, instead, they would rather hide behind a camera, mock the police, and criticize them for simply doing their jobs. There are groups that hate the police and there are many questions that...
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...The media article “Michael Brown: Stereotypes and Racial Disparities in Police Killings” discusses the case of Michael Brown and many of the reasons why deaths between white cops and black civilians are so high. Leland Ware, the author of said article, did his best to not be bias during this article. He proceeded to back up his point of white cops being cruel and unusual to black americans by providing informations from a study conducted by academic researchers. Ware (2014) writes “studies prepared by academic researchers have found that African Americans are four times more likely than whites to die during or after an encounter with a law enforcement officer” (7). The article discussed some of the stereotype and racial differences in today’s news, specifically the Michael Brown case....
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...movie based on a true story of a well-known death of a young African American male, Oscar Grant, due to the controversy of racial profiling and wrongful death of a police officer. Twenty-two year old Grant, was a working class father who was shot and killed while unarmed by a public transit officer on New Year’s Day in 2009 in the Bay Area of California. Grants murder shocked the nation after the video emerged capturing his death on camera by his fellow train passengers. Oscar Grant was a troubled young man who was trying to beat this odds of having a criminal record and finding employment. The day leading up to his death he decided that he no longer wanted to sell marijuana to make ends meet. He was ready for change. On night of Grants death, his mother asked him to take the train, believing it would be safer than driving into the city on New Year’s Eve. Grant concurred with his mother and met with his friends along with his girlfriend at the Bart Train station. After enjoying a night of fun, the group decided to end the night, while on the train a local gang member spotted Grant and attacked him. Once the fight occurred on the train, the transit police were called and Oscar and his friends were forced to sit on the pavement against the train station wall while passengers observed. The police harassed the young black men, beat them, and threatened to use the taser to keep them quiet. Oscar did his best to calm his friend who are upset because of how they were being treated. The...
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...to adequately protect our association. Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who may commit crimes just because of the race they may be. Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who may commit crimes just because of the race the may be. African Americans are the ones who feel more targeted, based on a stereotype about their race. In April 14, 2004 the officer showed...
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...“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” - (Ella Baker, 1964) The country’s history reverts back to enslaving our race and the killing of black men and women across the nation. Our ancestors have put their blood, sweat, and tears into making a better world for us. On February 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed by neighborhood watch member, George Zimmerman. Trayvon walked out of the store with his hoodie on, while carrying a bag of skittles, and a can of sweet tea. Zimmerman, believed Trayvon was a threat to his community and not thinking shot him 70 yards from his home. Martin, at the age of 17, lost his life because Zimmerman classified him by the color of his skin....
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...In 2018, Police have killed 352 people in the United State. Since the beginning of law enforcement brutality in the early 1900s, officers have not been convicted of violent crimes after incidents dealing with the abusive use of power and violence. Since the mid-1900s, people in the United States have spoken out in demand for justice, just to be neglected by the government. The government has not been able to change the structure of policing to cut down on police violence even though there are proven solutions. For these reasons, John Locke’s social contract that says that the government derives from the people has been broken. The government has not acted on this issue even after millions of Americans have spoken out in the form of marches...
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