The Brixton Riot And The Black Lives Matter Movement

Black Lives Matter has been an ongoing movement since July of 2013 to express how unjust and unfair African Americans are still treated the same as when segregation was still around but only more and more brutal than before as we progress. Black Lives Matter is a movement that came about due to several examples and crimes of how African Americans are being treated, this movement is much more bigger than just describing how African Americans are being treated but it is also a movement to show how others in the U.S. Abuse their power i.e. Systemic issues of oppression of a group, race, or organization, but mainly towards African-Americans. Certain acts of oppression towards the African-Americans have brought about riots and a strong progressive movement such as, The Brixton Riot(1981), and The Detroit Race Riot(1967), and The Black Lives Matter Movement(2013), a lot of people were affected by the oppression towards black people which brought about these riots and movements, but the few people who were directly affected by these gruesome acts of oppression are the ones who made everyone open their eyes, those actions caused people to finally wake up.
The background of the Brixton Riot was two caucasian, police officers who were only trying to help a young black injured man into the back of their car when a group of other black men saw what was going on, but took the whole situation in front of them into the wrong type of consideration which caused the riots of Brixton to form. The first two riots of the 1981 Brixton Riot was brought about only due to an incident where a black man was stabbed but not taken to the hospital, instead the police, who had the victim, took him into custody, which caused an uproar from