Stop And Frisk Reflection

The presentation that I attended was on Thursday January 21 2016 from one until two fifteen. The event took place inside the Loosemorre auditorium in Devos. The presentation was titled, Stop and Frisk, Racial Profiling and the U.S. Constitution. Dr.Kanaboshi, Dr.Gerkin and Gonzalez (a grad school student) put on this presentation. The event was held at this location because it was during the week that Grand Valley did the teach in. The speakers gave their presentation on this issue, and I felt that the crowd was very involved. The crowd was filled with many students as well as professors, and people in the community. Many of the adults were very intrested in this topic, and continued asking questions. There was so many questions that they
I was not framilar with it, and did not realzie this sort of injustice was happening. The disproportionate amount of African Americans being stopped was also suprising. It was very clear that this program was racially bias, and it went on for quite some time. I was surprised these officers abused a young man based on the color of his skin. It is hard to see that in 2015 (when the information was from) we still have not made the proper steps needed to protect people of all
I will never understand what it is like to be a young African American male. So learning through this young mans experince was very benefical for me. When lookig at what I learned about others I relaized there are so many problems in the world that I will never experince, but I like to informaed of them. I also learned about how wrong some officers are willing to use their power to put others down. I hate hearing that officers are bad, but it is important to learn from their mistakes and see what I should not do ( I know I would never be racisit towards someone but their interaction was a good learning