Brutality In V For Vendetta

Recent discourse surrounding 911 calls have surfaced, suggesting that communities work to solve a conflict/an issue together rather than calling 911 (especially when the victim or perpetrator is Black) in order to save them from the genuine possibility of being killed. Lopez also found that thirty-one percent of people killed by the police are Black even though only thirteen percent of the United State population is Black (Lopez). Tyranny in literature reflects the tyranny found with police brutality. In the movie and screenplay V for Vendetta, government officials killed marginalized groups simply for their existence. Dietrich was killed because he had a Quran and he was gay; both illegal at the time in the film (V). Police kill Black people legally because they claim that they felt they were in danger because the African American seemed to be holding a gun or weapon.

In 2015, a police officer killed Walter Scott and claimed that Scott had tried to use the officer’s stun gun; later, civilian video evidence was found that proved that the officer shot Scott while he attempted to flee and the officer planted evidence (Lopez). Unsurprisingly, Lopez found that “A Justice Department investigation conducted in 2015 and 2016 found Black people in Baltimore were much more likely to be stopped than their white counterparts” but outrageously, “one Black man in his mid-50s was stopped 30 times in less than four years — nearly one stop a month — despite never receiving a citation or criminal charge” (Lopez). Clearly, police brutality still targets Black communities solely to maintain a racist system of