This year there's been a lot of brutalities. In fact, there have been at least 500 people killed by the police officers this year. In this article, we are going to be talking about police brutality against African Americans. We are also going to talk about the differences and similarities of different cases that have been in the news this year. For example, the Sandra bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and the Walter Scott cases. Also, we're going to talk about how these cases have affected the African American community. According to an article by Al Baker, J. David Goodman, and Benjamin Mueller at the New York Times "Eric Garner was standing on a sidewalk in Staten Island when an unmarked police car pulled up. The police officers say that Mr. Garner was selling untaxed cigarettes. When the police started to approach him he told them to draw back. When the police tried to arrest him he refused to go with them. The police officer let him go with a warning. A …show more content…
The cases also show that regardless of anywhere you go in America there will always be racism. The police brutality in America affects me and society because we do not know if we can trust all police, officers. The reason why I state that we can't trust all officers is because we do not know if they are racist and think they are above the law. For example, in an article from police brutality.com about The Long-term effects of Police Brutality it states "that she is a victim of police brutality and that she suffers from PTSD, chronic anxiety attacks, and borderline agoraphobia. It also says that she lives in fear every day, and she has a horrible sense of self-worthlessness." She also says, "I do not leave my home. I do not socialize. My sense of TRUST has been destroyed on so many levels. I was once a fun loving social being with many friends. NOT ANYMORE. Cops have taken something from me they have stolen my ability to trust."
Police Brutality Police work is dangerous. Sometimes police put in situations that excessive force is needed. But, because some officers use these extreme measures in situations when it is not, police brutality should be addressed. The use of excessive force may or may not be large problem, but it should be looked into by both the police and the public. For those people who feel racism is not a factor in causing the use of excessive force, here is a startling fact. In Tampa Bay, Florida, five men died while in the custody of the
When hearing the phrase “police brutality,” many people imagine batons cracking skulls, tasers electrocuting bodies and bullets penetrating innocent teens. While police officers have been known to use violence, police brutality does not occur as often as many believe. In many situations, officers have to act on impulse and curiosity, despite the backlash the media may create.
Police brutality has been a significant issue for many years.. The people affected by this most of all, are people of color. They are subject to racial inequality by the police and the justice system every day. They are being killed everyday simply for existing. The excessive force used by the police specifically towards African Americans is continuous; with the justice system doing close to nothing to change that. This is one of the reasons they continue to kill and harass African Americans. According to Propublica, young black males are about twenty times more likely to be shot and killed by the police than their white peers are. Murderers are walking free, and innocent lives are being taken. Over the past couple of years, thousands of people have been killed on the hands of the police, both black and white.
Police brutality has been an apparent mark on the struggles, trials, and tribulations of people of minorities for years, primarily Black people. From the times of slavery to the present unlawful targeting and murders of black citizens with no justification, police brutality has been an enema in Black American culture for hundreds of years. Seen both in James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” and in the current happenings of the United States. The hashtag “#BlackLivesMatter” has been a focal point in the current struggle for equality of the races. The current outpouring of support for black lives and
In 2014, the death of Eric Garner in New York City raised controversial conversations and highlighted the issues of race, crime, and policing in neighborhoods that tend to be poor and racially isolated. Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed after being tackled and held in a “chokehold.” According to the AP Polls in December 2014, “Police killings of unarmed blacks were the most important news stories of 2014.” The problem is that young black men are targeted by police officers in which they have responded with the misuse of force and policy brutality. It is evident that this issue affects many people nationwide. The civilians do not trust the police department and the justice system because they hold the perceptions that police officers are immune from prosecution despite their actions. In particular, black individuals, specifically black males, do not feel safe in the presence of police officers because they are not held accountable for their mistakes.
Eric Garner was selling cigarettes, an action that didn't require any physical involvement between him and the police, however, the police places Eric Garner within a chokehold, blocking his airways. After many attempts of Garner telling the police officers “I Can’t Breathe,” the refused to release their grip and ultimately killed Garner. Their justification for their actions was Garner’s “resistance,” although I believe even if Garner did resist, that didn’t give them the right to take his life over cigarettes. One of the police officers were placed on modified duty (stripped of badge and gun) the other placed on desk duty while Eric Garner was placed in a
The United State is one of the worst of the countries that experience police brutality. 90% of complaints for police misconducts were not investigated. Over 10,000 police brutality complaints against the US police departments only 19 of them were inflicted by police brutality. Most police departments say “we don’t need a few bad apples or a few rogue cops damaging the good police name that was once there for the police to help the needed people and to keep the communities safe. Police brutality us a nation problem and it is
Aside from the fact that police brutality is wrong in itself, there is a much greater issue at hand. African-Americans, Hispanics and other minority groups are more likely to face this hostile behavior than Whites are. In America, minorities still face embedded racism and second-class treatment. A recent poll showed that many police officers even feel that their fellow coworkers act with excessive force yet do not report them due to the possibility of getting a “cold shoulder” from fellow workers. Many police officers stop more black people than they do white by racial profiling; racial profiling is using race or ethnicity as a key
Police brutality is a major conflict in today’s society. Innocent people get killed each day because police feel threatened by the slightest move. Police brutality does not only affect African Americans, it affects the world in a whole. It is a very important situation because there is an innocent human being shot down, beat, or choked each day. They are not losing their lives because they threatened the cop or because they tried to kill the cop, there being killed because they were walking down the street at night. This is not a simple problem that has rose just this year, this is a situation that has been happening
Attention Getter: Are all the officers who are intended to "Protect and Serve" really following through with that?
Police brutality and racial profiling dates back to the 1700’s in the United States(Rushing). Unfortunately, such treatment by police continues today when police are expected to hold the civic duty to protect and serve. Mistreatment by police is just the start in most cases, when citizens fight back it becomes “brutal”. Police brutality by definition means “The use of any force exceeding that reasonably to accomplish a lawful police purpose.” Police brutality can occur in many different ways with the most common being physical harm. Although that is a big problem, there are other cases of Police brutality that involve acts of false arrest, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, intimidation, etc. An act that can be seen as police brutality could be a criminal running from the cops and an officer shoots a victim with a taser. Many cases of physical harm are police using excessive force to contain and arrest any individual. Since many accounts of police brutality have been directed towards minorities, these cases turn into acts of racial profiling. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Let 's say for example Trayvon Martin, a simple 17 year old black male walking home from a gas station was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member. This being one of the many
In the year of 2016 there were many cases of police brutality in the U.S. There were over 1,000 people killed due to police brutality. Many of these cases resulted in a police officer not being convicted. Someone is killed every 7 hours by a police officer which is a crazy statistics. In this essay you’ll realise why installing these cameras will help reduce police brutality rates across the U.S. In this essay you will see how it is possible that if cops use body cameras and why cars should have dashboard cameras and how this can help reduce police brutality rates across the U.S.
In a article titled “‘Black Lives Matter’ cases: When controversial killings lead to change”, in this it covered seven cases of African American males being killed by the police. One of the cases was Michael Brown an 18 year old boy who was shot 12 times in the back on August 9, 2014. Officer Wilson was the man who fired 12 times into Michael’s back but Wilson was not indicted by the jury. This event that occurred shows how a white male can be sent on his way without any consequences. The officer in duty claimed that Michael was armed and says that he tried to attack him. Also a few days later after Officer Wilson was not indicted he resigned from the Ferguson Police Department. Many individuals believe that Officer Wilson was taking advantage of his badge. Another case that involved an African American males was killed was Alton Sterling. This man was selling CDs outside a convenience store. This death of an innocent man caused an uproar, on cellphone a video showed how Alton was tackled then pinned to the ground by an officer. The officers claimed that Alton was reaching for a gun so before he could he was shot in the back. The federal prosecutors said that they didn’t have enough evidence to file charges against the officers at the scene. This shows how racism still exists in all places of the world this shows how the officers were given a free pass for shooting and killing an unarmed man that was pinned down on his stomach, and it also shows how concerned the police and government are about the citizens in their
Protests around the world have taken place to fight for justice in the black community. The immense number of deaths of unarmed black men and women is a clear sign that they are more likely to be killed by police than white people. Physical violence and excessive use of force by the U.S. police towards African Americans are seen in the news regularly. “People, including police officers, hold strong implicit associations between blacks, and probably Hispanics, and weapons, crime and aggression," said Jack Glaser. Police brutality statistics show that African Americans are three times more likely to be murdered by cops than any other race. Racial disparity in the United States is a coherent reason for the increase of criminal injustice in the United
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