effect of police brutality on females in the African American community and how they are portrayed in the media. Therefore, I chose to create a column in People magazine called ‘Females Of Equality’, where I interview several young females of the African American culture on their response to the police brutality that is occurring
Police Brutality : Injustice in the system has lead to Mistrust in the African American Community Police officers that are supposed to bring peace to the communities they protect, are only bringing fear to the African American. In many cases the police officer believed that he or she was making the right decision. An example of the would be the Ferguson vs Darren Wilson. Throughout the trail Wilson kept saying how he felt that his life was in danger. Wilson said in his testimony “At this point
issue I have chosen is police brutality. Police brutality has been and still is a big problem in America. But it didn’t just start in the past few years, the term police brutality started in 1872, fast forward to 2017 police brutally have killed 1,147 people and black people were 26% of those killed. There has been a lot of controversy with people expressing that police brutality has a lot to do with the color of someone's skin and what it represents. Some people think that police are more threatened
Criminal Justice: How does Police Brutality Affect Today’s Society? The definition of police brutality is when an officer uses force that is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use according to the circumstances. Police brutality is a major conflict in today’s society. Innocent people get killed each day because police feel threatened by the slightest movement. Police brutality does not only affect African Americans, it affects the world as a whole. It
Police brutality is a big controversial issue in the United States. Police Brutality is the use of excessive force, usually physical, but also common in forms of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation, by a police officer. People find them self-asking why does police brutality occur? They figure police officers are supposed to be loyal and protective of their citizens, not betray them in a way they feel is violent and cruel. However, man’s inhumanity to mankind. Their void of compassion, sympathy
hands of police custody. This set off a chain reaction of riots and looting in the streets of Baltimore it was chaos all around. Baltimore has a serious racial history with now the African American population size in the upper 60 percent, whenever something like this goes down the people get really furious. The Newyorker.com states, “the issues in Baltimore extend far beyond the parameters of race, but race is the narrative most easily seized upon.” Baltimore has many more issues than police brutality
Police Brutality Each day every eight hours a cop kills an American citizen. Police brutality is the use of excessive and unnecessary force by police dealing with civilians. Police Brutality happens everyday and in many cases the “cops” get away with this type of action. Cops say the they only use force when they feel threaten. Police Brutality gives police the advantage to get away with ruthless actions because of this over thousands of people are brutally injured or killed by police. “African
rising tension between the LAPD and the city’s African Americans. One day, a man named Rodney King was in a high speed police chase. King did surrender, and he was unarmed. There was video evidence of four LA police officers brutally attacking King after he surrendered and showed no physical violence towards the officers. This soon led to a riot involving the whole city. The Los Angeles Riot of 1992 was the breaking point for human rights, police brutality, and racism. Human rights was a big cause
that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” -Malcolm X Not everyone shares that view with Malcolm X, especially not the white police. Policed abuse their power and freedom and use it as a means to oppress and discriminate against people of color. Two innocent black boys were shot and killed by police near the campus of Jackson State University in Mississippi in 1970 but the incident was overshadowed in the media. Forty years later, an emergency technical assistant
Police brutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations throughout the United States today. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers of accountability. It is this accountability that makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape due punishment and time after time repeat their offenses. Often times, police and other public officials greet each new report with denial or find a way to justify their