On February 7, 2016 David Joseph was shot and killed by Officer Freeman. He was a seventeen year old young unarmed African American. In 2015 there was a rate of 1,134 deaths, five times higher than Caucasian of the same age according to The Guardians Us policing counted article (Swaine, 2016).
When given an interview assistant Chief Brian Manley says the officer gave commands to Brown and he did not comply and charged at Officer Freeman ( Noelle, 2016).
Manley told reporters the teen was not wearing any clothes and charged at veteran Officer Geoffrey Freeman who is also an African American. Since Joseph was not wearing any clothes he was obviously not in the right state of mind. Officer Freeman has had about forty hours of mental health peace officer training (Schwaller, 2016). So that makes me believe he should know what to do in a given situation.
According to APD chief Art Acevedo Sunday February 7 at 11: am female witness approached by black male teen believed to be David …show more content…
("David Joseph Protest Recorded by Mixerr Reviews," 2016). I just hope this protest does not get out of control as Michael Browns did and the protest is done peacefully. Protestors spoke that black lives matter (Newton, 2016).
There was also concerns with the NAACP regarding police procedures. One of the members of the activist is Fatima Mann involved in Black lives matter says, “There needs to be more training and more accountability and see that adequate leadership exists,” (Newton, 2016). NAACP president Nelson Linder is upset that this problem keeps getting repeated and doesn’t stop. Now the Naacp is checking to see if this killing was illegal. This brought about the question of why other forms of protection weren’t used such as a taser as if shooting was the only answer (Newton, 2016). There was no witnesses during this
When given an interview assistant Chief Brian Manley says the officer gave commands to Brown and he did not comply and charged at Officer Freeman ( Noelle, 2016).
Manley told reporters the teen was not wearing any clothes and charged at veteran Officer Geoffrey Freeman who is also an African American. Since Joseph was not wearing any clothes he was obviously not in the right state of mind. Officer Freeman has had about forty hours of mental health peace officer training (Schwaller, 2016). So that makes me believe he should know what to do in a given situation.
According to APD chief Art Acevedo Sunday February 7 at 11: am female witness approached by black male teen believed to be David …show more content…
("David Joseph Protest Recorded by Mixerr Reviews," 2016). I just hope this protest does not get out of control as Michael Browns did and the protest is done peacefully. Protestors spoke that black lives matter (Newton, 2016).
There was also concerns with the NAACP regarding police procedures. One of the members of the activist is Fatima Mann involved in Black lives matter says, “There needs to be more training and more accountability and see that adequate leadership exists,” (Newton, 2016). NAACP president Nelson Linder is upset that this problem keeps getting repeated and doesn’t stop. Now the Naacp is checking to see if this killing was illegal. This brought about the question of why other forms of protection weren’t used such as a taser as if shooting was the only answer (Newton, 2016). There was no witnesses during this