In the St. Louis County, Missouri, there is a city that was incorporated in the 1894 with a motto “Proud Past. Promising Future.” That later became better known with words like violence, police brutality and social unrest, it is called Ferguson city. We know this city in this time and age because a white police officer killed an 18-year-old named Michael Brown who was unarmed in 2014. The Country that we live in is going through hard times because we hear things like Police Brutality, racially related fatalities, legislation and fundamental rights, and for law enforcement it is having protective measures made. The county of St. Louis as of the 2010 Census has over 241,333 African Americans according to the U.S. Census and 697,322 whites. In those numbers, above, there are 21,059 people who live-in Ferguson city alone. In that
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It literality started out as a hashtag that was created in 2013 by three women by the names of Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. They are organizers that are based in California and New York and they have campaigns for incarceration, immigration and domestic labor. After the shooting of Brown, the movement has told others that police officers are racist and is the biggest threat to young blacks today. The belief that racist police officers are out for young blacks has triggered murders and attempted murders of police officers, riots that get big enough that they block interstates and die-ins which is where someone lies down as if they are dead. With this movement, violence all over the country is on the rise because police officers are backing off from the proactive approach that they have lived by to not drawing their service weapon when they are threatened. This movement has the law enforcement trying to see what they can and cannot do because of the venom that is directed at them on the streets and on the
It literality started out as a hashtag that was created in 2013 by three women by the names of Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. They are organizers that are based in California and New York and they have campaigns for incarceration, immigration and domestic labor. After the shooting of Brown, the movement has told others that police officers are racist and is the biggest threat to young blacks today. The belief that racist police officers are out for young blacks has triggered murders and attempted murders of police officers, riots that get big enough that they block interstates and die-ins which is where someone lies down as if they are dead. With this movement, violence all over the country is on the rise because police officers are backing off from the proactive approach that they have lived by to not drawing their service weapon when they are threatened. This movement has the law enforcement trying to see what they can and cannot do because of the venom that is directed at them on the streets and on the