Alandria Hatcher SOCY 100
Being Black Isn’t Criminal
Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. John Crawford. Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. Ezell Ford. Mike Brown. Renisha McBride. Yvette Smith. Eleanor Bumpurs. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tarika Wilson. Rekia Boyd. These names are part of a growing list of African-American men and women who are unjustly murdered by those purposed to protect and serve. The police. In the alleged “post racial America”, Black Americans are being marked for murder by the zealots of the police force. In each case listed above, the victims of these murders were unarmed, and presented no threat to the police. In each case, the victim was villainized by the police and the media to make the assassins seem like white knights. We are living in the days of police sanctioned genocide. Let’s discuss just a few of the cases listed the highlight what is essentially legalized murder of blacks.
On February 4, 1999 Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times and killed by four police officers in Bronx, NY. Diallo was not carrying a weapon or posing a threat to the police when stopped. He in fact, was taking his wallet out of his back pocket (which is where men tend to carry their …show more content…
These are only five cases that are known, so many more may exist. At what point do we call to action the officers meant to protect us? Police brutality disproportionately affects African-Americans more than any other racial group in America. An FBI study of “justifiable homicide” shows that from 2005-2012, white officers used deadly force against a black person almost two times a week. Of those killed, one in every five was 21 years old or younger. In those cases, rarely was the officer fired, or sentenced to any jail time. Mathematically, in a city with a population of 20,000, if 25% of those people were black, in 48 years, you could eliminate the black population with those
Being Black Isn’t Criminal
Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. John Crawford. Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. Ezell Ford. Mike Brown. Renisha McBride. Yvette Smith. Eleanor Bumpurs. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tarika Wilson. Rekia Boyd. These names are part of a growing list of African-American men and women who are unjustly murdered by those purposed to protect and serve. The police. In the alleged “post racial America”, Black Americans are being marked for murder by the zealots of the police force. In each case listed above, the victims of these murders were unarmed, and presented no threat to the police. In each case, the victim was villainized by the police and the media to make the assassins seem like white knights. We are living in the days of police sanctioned genocide. Let’s discuss just a few of the cases listed the highlight what is essentially legalized murder of blacks.
On February 4, 1999 Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times and killed by four police officers in Bronx, NY. Diallo was not carrying a weapon or posing a threat to the police when stopped. He in fact, was taking his wallet out of his back pocket (which is where men tend to carry their …show more content…
These are only five cases that are known, so many more may exist. At what point do we call to action the officers meant to protect us? Police brutality disproportionately affects African-Americans more than any other racial group in America. An FBI study of “justifiable homicide” shows that from 2005-2012, white officers used deadly force against a black person almost two times a week. Of those killed, one in every five was 21 years old or younger. In those cases, rarely was the officer fired, or sentenced to any jail time. Mathematically, in a city with a population of 20,000, if 25% of those people were black, in 48 years, you could eliminate the black population with those