Police Brutality And Racism
We have all seen the news, and we have all heard of police brutality. The cases are all the same; an african american citizen was killed by a cop for “no reason.” Well, the truth is, most cops are not these racist, Ku Klux Klan members we think picture them to be. Media is the real villain, twisting words and adding in extra details to these stories. Overall, the media is framing the cops into being the bad guys, and unfortunately, the strangers we should trust most are being visualized as the bad guys. “COMMERCIAL is the main problem here. You reporters have deadlines which easily carry with it as much physiological stress as anything the cops get involved in, sincerely,” says Officer E.B. Chase, who is not only a cop, but also worked in
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There was a report on police brutality by Brian Williams, and a former FBI agent had his say on the matter. “Perhaps Brian Williams and much of his audience are too young to remember the beatings by fisticuffs and billy clubs that marked the various confrontations between police and demonstrators in the 1960s, but I remember well,” he goes on to saying. In fact, he goes on and says there were many injuries and deaths of police resisters. “I want my child to obey the law. Therefore, if my child is ordered by police to clear an area, I expect my child to respect that and obey the law. If my child does not obey the law, then, I expect my child to be arrested. Why? Because my child did not obey the law,” he says. If you resist the police, it is by law they arrest you. It is the law, and even though the media is saying these fights and beatings are unnecessary, it is written down in law that you obey the police. Therefore, whether the kid is black or white, it is completely …show more content…
Wesley Lowery, a reporter from Washington Post, fights the statement that more black people are killed. In 2015, Washington Post conducted a realtime database to track fatal police shootings. “As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race),” he says. He tries proving his point by stating that even though more white people were killed, there is a smaller percentage of african american people in America. The thing is, most of the people who kill these african americans are not white cops, but african american ones. And most of these shootings take place in violence filled neighborhoods and cities, as former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says that black communities are just overfilled with violence. And besides, as I mentioned before, if you ever say no to an officer, or resist arrest, then yes, they should take the required force to arrest you, as that is the
There was a report on police brutality by Brian Williams, and a former FBI agent had his say on the matter. “Perhaps Brian Williams and much of his audience are too young to remember the beatings by fisticuffs and billy clubs that marked the various confrontations between police and demonstrators in the 1960s, but I remember well,” he goes on to saying. In fact, he goes on and says there were many injuries and deaths of police resisters. “I want my child to obey the law. Therefore, if my child is ordered by police to clear an area, I expect my child to respect that and obey the law. If my child does not obey the law, then, I expect my child to be arrested. Why? Because my child did not obey the law,” he says. If you resist the police, it is by law they arrest you. It is the law, and even though the media is saying these fights and beatings are unnecessary, it is written down in law that you obey the police. Therefore, whether the kid is black or white, it is completely …show more content…
Wesley Lowery, a reporter from Washington Post, fights the statement that more black people are killed. In 2015, Washington Post conducted a realtime database to track fatal police shootings. “As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race),” he says. He tries proving his point by stating that even though more white people were killed, there is a smaller percentage of african american people in America. The thing is, most of the people who kill these african americans are not white cops, but african american ones. And most of these shootings take place in violence filled neighborhoods and cities, as former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says that black communities are just overfilled with violence. And besides, as I mentioned before, if you ever say no to an officer, or resist arrest, then yes, they should take the required force to arrest you, as that is the