...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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...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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...Police brutality Police brutality is when the police abuse their power and use unnecessary harmful force on civilians. Police brutality can be physical and or verbal. Police many times use their weapons are or their bare hands. Now in presently in America racism has played a huge role in police brutality. Many people have got themselves involved to make sure justice is served. This is a very big problem. There are many cases of police brutality. Two examples would be Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Mr. Garner a 350 pound 43- year old man who was 6’3. He was selling “loose” cigarettes. He wasn’t new to being arrested; he was arrested many times before this incident. Officers came up to Eric on suspicion of selling cheap cigarettes. Eric told...
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...facing this issue. Two incidents in particular is the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown and The killing of a Staten Island man by a police officer. The Ferguson shooting was taken seriously and caused many people to question racial profiling. While Michael Brown was a black teenager the killer happened to be a male, white police officer. This caused many people to have different opinions on whether or not Brown was killed do to his race. Brown was suspected to have done nothing wrong to Officer Wilson and it came to the conclusion that Brown was shot for no apparent reason. As this case continued to be seen through the government, many things didn't make sense to why Brown had been shot 12 times. Many people have came to the conclusion that Officer Wilson wanted Brown dead. No one really knows why this may be the case. Earlier before Brown was killed, he was seen causing a problem in a local liquor store. Once Brown arrived at the scene he should have addressed the situation in a better way however he chose not too. Aside from the Ferguson situation, there was similar situation just a month later. A black Staten Island man was killed by a white police officer due to an illegal head lock. Eric Garner a black man was killed by Daniel Pantaleo by putting him in a chokehold that prevented him from breathing. The New York City Police Department doesn't allow chokeholds which makes this incident suspicious. Garner was...
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...Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but the strategy worked only when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with crossing racial barriers. Thus, even after the Supreme Court declared that public school segregation was unconstitutional, black activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites. When she was jailed, a black community boycott of the city’s buses began. The boycott lasted more than a year, demonstrating the unity and determination of black residents and inspiring blacks elsewhere. Martin Luther King, Jr., who emerged as the boycott movement’s most effective leader, possessed unique conciliatory and oratorical skills. He understood the larger significance of...
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...York Times, “the Chinese-American police officer, Peter Liang, whose ricocheting bullet killed an unarmed black man, Akai Gurley, in a housing project stairwell.” He was charged with a second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment and official misconduct. However, Peter Liang told his superiors that his gun had gone off unintentionally and the bullet rattling off a wall into Akai Gurley’s chest, killing the man. To back up Liang’s story, Sgt. Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association said, “I believe it’s a truly accidental incident.” This incident immediately became a controversy and most...
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...SOC 370 December 4th, 2014 Sociology of Race Relations With Police Officers The United States prides itself on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a country, all men are created equal and have the same opportunities. However, to this day, that is not the case. For decades and arguably centuries, African Americans and other minorities have continued to fight this ongoing battle against racism and prejudice. This struggle is also very prevalent in police and judicial affairs. With the recent racial tension going on in the United States, it is important to understand why African Americans are still feeling this way in order to find ways in which to eliminate police brutality. Using Weber’s theory of authority, one can apply his ideology to the recent events in race relations and police officers in order to understand the ongoing tension and divulging into the reasoning behind people’s reactions to these events, emphasizing the issue is centralized around power and authority. There are everyday events that occur that highlight the ongoing racial tension between African Americans and police officers, showing that discrimination and racism is not dead here in the United States. For example, take the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. There is major controversy in the telling of the Michael Brown shooting. Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9th by Officer Darren Wilson (Clarke). Brown was unarmed when the incident happened and the witnesses’...
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...young black male deaths at the hands of white police officers. “For decades the United States has had a history of deadly racially tinged police confrontations, many of them involving unarmed black men.” (Lizette Alvarez, New York Times) The United States police departments have been constantly under review for unjustified shootings within the black community. “ At least seven U.S police departments have been subjects of federal review since the wake of fatal police shootings since 2010.” (Kevin Johnson, USA Today) Are white cops really that scared of young black males to kill them? Or are they just using their race power to kill of black males without getting in trouble? Most...
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...being attacked by an officer of the law that’s supposed to protect you? Police brutality is the use of excessive force against a civilian. Police brutality has been going on for a while and it is a human rights violation, which many minorities in the U.S. have to fear. And that’s because police have acted in a way that make people wonder if you can you trust them to do their job of keeping the peace since they’re the ones not following the law. The most seen use of force by police officers, include shootings, beatings, and rough treatments of citizen. One prime example of this would be Eric Garner who “On July 17, New York police put into a chokehold after they confronted him for selling cigarettes. Videos show an officer pulling Garner to the ground and then Squeezing his head on the floor, And Eric yelling I can’t breathe” (According to...
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...Citizens have faced police brutality for just being of a different race. In fact, there were riots because of the untimely demise of Eric Garner. Eric Garner was killed by the New York city police after being held in a chokehold while being arrested, thus resulting in his death. By many, this was seen as police violence and unlawful use of force; also, many believe this was a result of racism in the police department. Police brutality and racism may be an issue, but justice will be restored, much like when we restored justice to the people with the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Although we all live together, not every citizen treats other citizens with the freedom they deserve. This is seen in the Charleston Shootings, where a young white male shot and killed members of a non-white church. While the poor can be supported by the government, some corporations take advantage of that support. Walmart has been known to not support workers with proper benefits such as healthcare for children, thus requiring employees to apply for WIC or welfare, despite working a fulltime job. This is an issue not purposefully...
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...vandalizing non supporters property. It began on July 23, 2013. Black Lives Matter protests affect African American lives, police lives, and American citizens live. The effects on the black lives matter movement on African American lives. The protests have affected a lot of lives. A young male named Michael Brown got shot by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, that's how the Black Lives Matter protests rose. This is an example of how Black Lives Matter protests started and how African Americans feel about white police officers and their decisions. The shootings caused citizens to record videos on their devices because of the fights that happen between African Americans and police officers. That means that people have to record every time a police officer touches someone because if they hurt them then they have evidence against the officer that harmed the citizen, and they should go to jail and be fired instead of getting warnings like some police officers....
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...Technical Institute Aug 2015 * Research Question “Why do Police use excessive force on the public? * Working Thesis According to the U.S Department of Justice Community Relations Service 35 years of conciliation experience in the area of race relations, we are convinced that incidents of police use of excessive and lethal force can be prevented, and the turmoil in the communities in the aftermath of such an incident can be reduced; civil unrest and disorder is not a necessary consequence of such a terrible tragedy. * Results of start-up research Over and over, one thing we have learned is that good policing practices are essential to developing community support. Other elements include trust and confidence in the administration of justice. With this foundation, the prospect of successfully dealing with the potential for violent disturbances in the community is greatly enhanced. Moreover, a healthy relationship between the police and the community diminishes the prospect of the police using excessive force at all. * Description of available sources The written representation of these sources was obtained from several internet websites. References http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-mexico-officer-van-shooting-fired http://mic.com/articles/119970/25-actual-facts-about-police-brutality-in-america http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Chokehold-Police-Custody-Cause-of-Death-Staten-Island-Medical-Examiner-269396151...
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...station is 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...
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...) In 2014, a widespread initiative took place, a growing movement of people who marched and carried signs that inscribed the mantras of “hands up don’t shoot” and “black lives matter”. This was in response to a grand jury’s decision in Missouri to not indict police officer Darren Wilson for any crime related to the shooting and killing of Michael Brown. A week or so later Eric Garner was killed in NYC in direct relation to officer Daniel Pantaleo and his fatal chokehold. Officer Pantaleo was also not indicted by the grand jury although his deadly encounter was filmed by onlookers. There was already a preexisting calling to for police officers to wear body cameras in hopes it would discourage officers from misconduct and that it would also make...
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...Rodney King, Eric Garner, Renisha McBride, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Marlene Pinnock, Dontre Hamilton, Ezell Ford, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Freddie Gray, and Tony Robinson are just some of the many unarmed African Americans killed by the police within recent years. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, Between the World and Me, discusses these injustices. He addresses these topics to his son, Samori. He also discourses his memoir towards white Americans so he can bequeath awareness about what it is like to grow up African American. Coates discussed growing up as an African American in the Baltimore projects. He argues about the inequalities of the public-school system and about white Americans stuck in “the Dream” (Coates 11). “The Dream” is the ingroup favoritism of white...
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