Police Brutality: The Black Lives Matters Movement
A rising problem in our world today is police brutality. It is happening everywhere and little to nothing is being done to stop it. Then what is being done to help is being undone by rival movements, damaging media coverage, and violence against innocent people. The “Black Lives Matter“ movement was created to bring awareness to the atrocities facing the African American population today. But due to the reasons mentioned previously, their efforts aren't doing much or anything to help, and as more and more people of color are being executed the more tension builds between minorities and the police, which continues the vicious circle.
People of color, namely blacks, are being killed by the police in ways that are unwarranted or otherwise not vocally motivated. The people who are supposed to keep the public safe, the people we count on to protect us and our families are taking lives simply because they “fear for their lives” or “feel threatened” by an innocent man or woman or child lying facedown on the concrete? And instead of deescalating a situation like they are supposed to do in situations where there is a weapon involved, they are blowing things way out of proportion then shoot to kill when there is “resistance”. But what seems to be widely not understood is that the people being targeted are not being non compliant they are exercising their basic rights by asking what they did and why they are being confronted so violently in as calm of a manor they can. So as a response people who were fed up with all the senseless violence created the BLM movement.
One reason the BLM movement isn't successful is because of rival movements like the “All Lives Matter” and the “Blue Lives Matter” movement, these movements take away from the overall message of BLM. These two pop up movements make BLM seem exclusive and anti police and that's not the significance of the movement at all, the real purpose of BLM is to bring awareness to the terrible things happening to people of
People of color, namely blacks, are being killed by the police in ways that are unwarranted or otherwise not vocally motivated. The people who are supposed to keep the public safe, the people we count on to protect us and our families are taking lives simply because they “fear for their lives” or “feel threatened” by an innocent man or woman or child lying facedown on the concrete? And instead of deescalating a situation like they are supposed to do in situations where there is a weapon involved, they are blowing things way out of proportion then shoot to kill when there is “resistance”. But what seems to be widely not understood is that the people being targeted are not being non compliant they are exercising their basic rights by asking what they did and why they are being confronted so violently in as calm of a manor they can. So as a response people who were fed up with all the senseless violence created the BLM movement.
One reason the BLM movement isn't successful is because of rival movements like the “All Lives Matter” and the “Blue Lives Matter” movement, these movements take away from the overall message of BLM. These two pop up movements make BLM seem exclusive and anti police and that's not the significance of the movement at all, the real purpose of BLM is to bring awareness to the terrible things happening to people of