Tamir Rice Shooting: Not Just A Tragedy Analysis

Many people believe that police brutality in America is a problem. Others have a different thought on the matter. People believe that it is a problem because of what they see in the news and media. They only see one side of the story, not both sides. People only think that colored people get killed by police officers, but that's not the case at all. People always bring race into the killings and say “The white officer shot the man because he was black”. They don't look at both sides of the story. They only see and know what the media shows them. Some protests in the past turned violent and the police had to come in and control the protesters. Just this year someone was so fed up with cops killing black people that during black lives matter …show more content…
Williams, writes about how a young 12-year-old boy is shot and killed by a police officer. The boy was shot because the police got a call from someone saying that there is a person in the park pointing a gun at people. “Although they said the gun was “probably fake” and the person was “probably a juvenile.” (Williams). However, that message was not relayed to the police. The officers arrived on scene and “got out, drew his weapon and fired as the boy reached for the gun in his waistband” (Williams). Tamir possibly could have been handing over the weapon or trying to show the officers that the weapon was fake. In the article, the author states that the officers were white. It doesn't matter whether they were white or black. Once again people bring race into it. There is no way of knowing if the boy was trying to surrender or attempt to hurt the officers with the pellet gun. The author also writes about a recent study that has been conducted that resulted in finding out that both black and white officers are more likely to draw their weapon and fire at an African American person of suspicion rather than a white subject in the same scenario. A new bill is being enforced to make sure manufacturers that produce toy guns in colors that won’t be misguided as a real gun. The thesis of the article is “When a Cleveland prosecutor announced Tuesday that'd he'd recommend a grand jury not indict a city police officer for gunning down a 12-year -old boy armed with a toy pellet gun, he called it a confluence of human error, mistakes, and miscommunication” (Williams). The purpose of the article was to inform and to potentially persuade the reader. The intended audience could likely be anyone