Police Brutality Essay

We all know as a police officer their job is protect us citizens while trying to detect and fight crime. Because that is their job we trust them to always do the right thing and do right by the law. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. There are hundreds of cases all around the world about police officers harming and even killing completely innocent people leaving hundreds of families with broken hearts and no answers to why an innocent life was taken daily. This is known as police brutality. Because this is starting to happen very often people now look at police and no longer get that sense of protection, but instead we now fear the police. Police officers are now looked at as the monsters of our society.
On August 9th 2014 an African
Based on police reports, witnesses and Wikipedia Diallo looked like a man that had a warrant out for his arrest that had previously raped 29 victims. So the four police men thought they had found the victim, even though it wasn’t the right guy. The four police Edward McMillon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, and Richard Murphy followed Diallo until he was on the steps right outside of his apartment door. The police’s then yelled “NYPD” as Diallo was putting his hand in his pocket about to pull out his wallet and keys. Officer Carroll yelled out the word “gun”, as in Diallo was pulling out a gun, even though he was not. This then led to all four Officers pulling out their guns and firing at Diallo. All four officers fired 41 times total, and about 19 of the actually hit Diallo and quickly killed him. The investigation after the shooting showed that Diallo was unarmed and what he pulled out of his pocket was a small black wallet, not a gun, and keys for his apartment. After going to court, all four officers’ bail were set at $100,000. Shortly after the charges for all four officers were dropped. Again, this is another example of someone innocent and unarmed dying because of police officers. Another tragedy where justice is not being