Examples Of Unjust Killing Of African Americans

Unjust Killing of African Americans by Police Officers Police officers are abusing their authority by brutalizing and even sometimes killing black people. These attacks have been video recorded and afterwards put on social media. Leading to police brutality being a trending topic on social media because of the rising cases involving police using excessive force and the recordings of these events. Many famous cases have spiraled from police brutality including Michael Brown, Rodney King, and Sandra Bland. Seeing this has made people start to protest and riot. Others have been trying to come up with ways to prevent police brutality. Police officers jobs are to protect and serve their community not to kill innocent black people. An African American
A man named Rodney King was another victim of police brutality. This event happened in LA. Just after midnight, King was driving drunk and failed to pull over when he was asked to by police. This turned into a high speed chase. After police finally got him to pull over, King resisted arrest. A group of officers tazed him several times. Additionally, two officers named Laurence Powell and Timothy Wind began beating King with their nightsticks as Theodore Briseno, a third officer continually kicked King in the head repeated times. A witness named George Holliday heard the noise and decided to record the whole thing. The video was shown on television news programs across the country. This sent people in uproar. It mad people mad that police officers were taking advantage of their authority in the community. According to the New York Times it “revived charges that the police department has failed to confront an alleged pattern of police brutality and official abuse of minorities among its officers”. King spent days in the hospital recovering from his severe injuries. Officers Powell, Wind and Briseno were indicted. The jury (who was predominately white) found them not guilty. Although Rodney King was in the wrong, he still didn’t deserve to be abused like that
A report from the National Center for Women in Policing stated that female officers are less likely to use excessive force. While women make up 12.7 percent of those departments, they only account for 5 percent of citizen complaints of excessive force. If the departments hire more women, that also means that they wont be looked at as a department with cops that use violent tactics when arresting people. The Los Angeles Police Department paid $63.4 million between 1990 and 1999 for lawsuits against male officers and only $2.8 million for those against female officers (Lon sway). These suggestions as to how to prevent police brutality are useful and should by used by police